Steven Price Quotes

When I'm playing guitar, I just try and put those words into lyrics and just try a few things. It's all over the place.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story I'm telling. Then I start building little bridges - word bridges - to make everything go from one point to the next point to the next point until it reaches the end.

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!

Sometimes I play something, and I haven't recorded it, and I don't know where it came from, why my hands did what they did, what key it was in, anything.

Some of my writing is very subconscious, and that's definitely what happened with 'Body Language' - I looped some basic bossa nova sounds and just started singing.

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

I like to tinkle at my piano when I'm working out a new song - I just put my fingers down and see what comes out.

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making.

Sometimes song happens all at once where you sit down and the lyrics and the music just come out. So there definitely isn't one way that it happens - there are a lot of different things that take place.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

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.

I like drawing people in the airport or on the bus or in venues. I like catching people in the moment. It's a similar inspiration for me in terms of songwriting.