Gwen Stefani Quotes

The very first song I ever wrote was called 'I See Between The Trees,' when I was 9. It was really bad.

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.

The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.

Sing your heart out and write the best song you possible can.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy. I wrote about everyday stuff.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

When you're writing a song, you have to know two things. You have to know who you are, and you have to think about other people.

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.

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

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

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

There are no rules to writing a song.