Avril Lavigne Quotes

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.

I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.

As long as I can make albums, I will.

I not only composed music for my albums but also for the film 'Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh.'

We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.

I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.

I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great.

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.

There are still songs that I'm writing. I like to write. I like to take a long time to do my songs, not even the actual writing process, but conceptualizing, getting into the songs. That's why I stopped doing mixtapes.

If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I want to make an album and I have to depend on other people's music, which I've done for years. But still, it'd be really nice to be able to sprinkle it with my own.

I'm creating songs. I do it most of the time, in the car or in the house.

I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.

I don't intend to stop making music.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

I tend to write at the piano, but usually the melody and lyrics come first. Like, I'll be in the shower, and I'll start singing, and the melody and the lyric will just come out. Then I'll quickly try to finish the shower, try to remember it, record it on my phone and save it for the studio.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.