Hozier Quotes

'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the sounds in your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I'm driving or in the shower.

When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that.

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.

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

I write songs every day, but I don't necessarily get to record them.

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

The songs will come as they come, and I'm excited because I haven't gotten to be really creative in a while. I'm excited to get back and do what I do and just write a song.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

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