Drew Barrymore Quotes

When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar.

I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.

When you're singing about love stories, which is most of my songs, it's good to have a lot of information and to have a different point of view.

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.

I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs."

I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take it and go, 'Okay. How can I interpret these lyrics differently?' I love taking lyrics that were so close to me at a certain point in my life and then revamping them. I always want to take things to the next level.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things.

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

I've written songs about love or about a relationship, but never just, 'I love you.'

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.

Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write them down and figure out how to use that in a melody to write a song.

You never forget where you were when you write a song; it's a very proper memory, so I knew exactly where I was and what I was doing for each track. It was like going into a time machine.

You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

I know my fans look up to me and that's why I make my songs so personal; it's all about things I've experienced and things I like or hate. I write for myself and hope that my fans like what I have to say.

I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.

I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].

I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.

I've always been into writing love songs.