Kris Kristofferson Quotes

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

That's what I used to do; I would just go into the studio and just rap. But it's all about coming up with dope concepts and dope hooks.

Of course, I go into the studio with all the words written down.

I was constantly in the studio at my home writing ideas that would later become 'Hotel California' or 'Victim of Love.'

'Free Mind' was a song written over a couple of years. It was pretty much three different songs that I couldn't figure out how to put together - until one day, when I was in the studio, it kind of just fell into place.

It was quite nice having a routine, going to the studio every day and finishing off 'Wild World'.

As a producer, as a songwriter, I've spent a lot of time either in my bedroom or in studios, alone.

If I'm not on tour or doing a show, I'm in the studio.

I'm never not in the studio creating; it's like my second home.

I don't really write. I'm an on-the-spot type of person. This beat, let's listen to it; let's vibe. And then I'll do a melody, and then we'll go back and do it.

I basically wake up at five in the morning and grab coffee and just get to the studio. And I have a list of things I need to get done every day. Sometimes it's just mixing, sometimes it's actually writing, sometimes it's writing, recording, and mixing. It all depends on what is necessary that day.

I've always had good songs, it's the great songs that are difficult to find.

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

With songwriters like me who are prolific, you just write the song and then put it on tape.

I don't like pre-written raps; I think it makes the song better if you listen to the beat first. In a sense, you have to make a marriage with the beat. I ride the beat, hear the flow of the drums, get the melody of my flow, and then from that point, it's a process of what I want to say.

This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it.

For one, the whole concept of 'Live From Here' - writing a song every week - was like composition bootcamp.

I don't know how other people have a topic or have a goal when making a song, like, 'Let's write about this, or let's write about that.' It's kind of difficult for me. Personally, I like vibing out and freestyling.

Making records is hard work.