Bibi Bourelly Quotes

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

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

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

I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people's songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels - whatever little girls sing about.

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

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.

I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.

I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.

Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.

I grew up with another pretty darn good writer: Glenn Frey of the Eagles. We were very good friends, and we kind of studied it together.

I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.

I'm not the best person at putting words together. I can't give you the melody. But I might inspire somebody.

I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.

It's so fun to make up stories, but I find that the songs that I'm most proud of came from a real thing in my life - 'Peter Pan' being one of those.

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.