Alice Oswald Quotes

The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.

Everything that I do on stage comes from seeing the Black Crowes in '95 in Charlotte. For 'Let Her Cry,' I was just trying to write 'She Talks to Angels.'

I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists.

I'm really big into lyrics in my own songs, so I look up to Drake in that aspect.

I did not want to follow Chi Udayashankerji; now Yogaraj Bhat does not want to follow me in writing lyrics.

I think I'm influenced a lot by Drake in specific ways in my writing.

Lyrically and melodically, Drake was definitely a big influence of mine.

When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.

I have grown up listening to Strings and they have always been a source of inspiration to me.

Hopefully, reading and being around great literature inspires me to write songs, but I'm not sure about that.

If I'm not writing, I can download a newer album everybody's making a fuss about. But when I'm writing, I keep myself in my own zone - I worry about listening to new music that'll inform me too much. I'm the kind of person who goes to another country and starts speaking in an accent after three days.

How did I write 'Spin Me?' I listened to Luther Vandross's 'I Wanted Your Love.'

I picked up the guitar at 15 because of Taylor Swift.

It was actually working with Kendrick Lamar that pushed me further into the act of songwriting, specifically.

We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.

I aspire to write like Robert Wyatt. I take a lot of inspiration from the way he writes.

I'd say I did a lot of what I did with songs like 'At My Best' was because of the influence of my daughter.

I always loved Oasis because when they came out, they did express that they loved us, and they saw that we did it, and they thought they could do it, too.

I love watching movies, and I'm very inspired by movies when it comes to songwriting!

My style influences my music and everything around me.