Daya Quotes

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts, and I expand on that.

I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

I never wanted to write really cheesy pop lyrics - like, 'baby, baby, the sun is shining' - that's not something that interests me personally. I'm always wanting to write something that has some kind of meaning.

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

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

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

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 don't sit down to write a song, per se.

I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

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