Lewis Hamilton Quotes

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 have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them.

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

I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.