Washed Out Quotes

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

Sometimes when I'm writing lyrics, it's a very loose train of thought, and wherever that takes me, I let it flow.

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that.

You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of it after the fact. But it's one of those things where I wouldn't be able to sit down and specifically write that. That's just what came out.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

There are no rules to writing a song.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.

I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.

I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

I used to do three or four songs a day, just write them - boom, boom, boom, and done - because of how spontaneous I was.

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.

Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say.

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.

It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.