Henry Lau Quotes

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

When I'm on a plane, I am the annoying person humming into my phone. Sitting there static with nothing to do, a lot of melodies come to me. So I've written a lot of songs on planes.

But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

I've got so many melodies in my head.

I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville - sometimes it comes to me that way.

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.

I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

I find motion, literally, is where ideas come from. It's almost like a built-in rhythm section. The contents of the songs are about change, and a lot of that stuff happens when you're on tour, and you wake up and you're in a different place and you start thinking about where you're going and where you've been.

I could fall asleep at 10:30 watching 'Hill Street Blues.' I might wake up at 1 A.M. and have a riff in my head.

I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The only explanation I have is all that stuff is coming at you while you're relaxed, so somehow it kicks you into hyperspace in terms of brain function.

Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.

I think music comes out of silence... and I have a lot of silent time, without a pesky guitar interrupting my thoughts.

You can't help but have ideas when you're inspired musically.

I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my head, and I'll write it down and file it away for another time.

Many people say some of their best ideas come from dreams. Arguably the greatest Beatles song, 'Yesterday,' came to Paul McCartney in a dream.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

When I'm doing a drawing, I get lots of ideas I use them in my songs, even. I do a lot of drawings because that's where I get most of my spending cash and I just always have to have new records, to get something to satisfy my listening pleasure.

I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.