Benny Blanco Quotes

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

I'm just inspired by music.

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

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.

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

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

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

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

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.

I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

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

Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

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.