Skylar Grey Quotes

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

There's two things that are tough when you're trying to be a songwriter: Number one is, how do I write a great song? The second thing is, how do I write a great song that's right for me?

While I write for myself, I also write for other artists too.

I want to write just as much as Kanye may have for whomever Kanye has written for.

I think every song I do is specifically tailored to what I would say and how I approach situations.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.

I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write for the page.

I never saw myself as a spokesman for a generation. It was all a bit heavy for me. I saw myself as a songwriter and wrote for myself, which I still do, and I also wanted to communicate with my audience.

I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.

It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.

I freestyled the hook to 'Target.' I got into cadence and then it sparked the idea.

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

Having some decent musicians around you only expands what you can do production-wise, but I make rap - I can't really see myself doing much else.

I don't know, I've always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.

I was Eazy's pen, because he couldn't write lyrics.

Film songs have so many creative limitations, but a private album is like an autobiography that reflects your state of mind.

My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.

Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done.

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.