Tyler Joseph Quotes

Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.

For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources.

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room.

It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit on his roof in the sunshine - and there's an endless amount of just sitting there, going, 'So, erm, er, what shall we do?'

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

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.

Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

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

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.