Edgar Guest Quotes

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

The inspiration to write a song comes to me when something has happened to me more than once. If it's happened to me more than once, it's probably happened to other people.

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy. I wrote about everyday stuff.

I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

I think I take little pieces of inspiration, then kind of do what's real to me and what's going on in my life or what I observe from other people's experiences and hope other people connect with it, too.

I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go through, but it's things people I know or my family is going through, and I hear about it, and I think, 'That sounds like a great song.'

What I've learned over the years is that the craft of songwriting is trying to take the personal and make it universal - or in the case of telling a story, taking the universal and making it personal.

I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.

Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.

I try to pull my inspirations from everyday life. If I came across a situation that is like, 'Oh, that's going to be scary, that's going to be frightening,' that's when I get inspired, and I put that into my films.

I'm not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they're super-relatable.

A lot of times, I walk down the street and listen to people argue, and then I write a song about it.

I've been hearing what a lot of people been doing and what a lot of people been putting out musically, I've been listening.

I'm inspired by day to day life, things that people go through, things that make people tick. Everybody has a story, so you try to put stories into songs and try to make it as entertaining as possible.

All of my surroundings influence my songwriting. It's autobiographical, although I leave enough space so it's relatable.

Man, I live out 90 percent of my songs and the other 10 percent... once in a while, I'll put myself in someone else's shoes and try to go down that road.

Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.

I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym.

I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing

I relate to all of my songs and I'm inspired by everything going on around me. Music comes from all different aspects of my life.

I'm inspired by whatever I see, feel, hear about, watch on the TV...anything. It can be something that I really need to get off my chest so I write or something a friend is going through which gets my thoughts going.