Amy Ray Quotes

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.

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

When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

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

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

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

I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.

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.

It's not that I sit down and write great stuff without thinking, not at all. Most of it is terrible. But the stuff that feels fun and fresh to me tends to happen fairly unthinkingly.

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

Lyrics are really, really hard, I think, or at least they're really hard for me. Some people can channel lyrics faster. I find them very hard to find, so because of it, they take me a long time, and I really think about them.

I used to write on pads with a pen but had trouble reading the words the next day. Years later, Bob Dylan taught me to just write and write on a laptop computer. Then I'd print that out. When it was time to write a song, I'd go through the pages and sing melodies to words that moved me.

The most common time I write lyrics is the middle of the night.

I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.

The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.

The 'sent' folder of my email program is really my biggest inspiration and my biggest source of lyrics. That's where I go to pick up a lot of the lyrics that I'm writing.

There are producers, like the late Geoffrey Perkins, who have truly great ideas that will fire up your synapses and show you that handing in your first draft is not the end of a horrible process, but the beginning of a beautiful one.

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.

Blank paper has always inspired me.