Jeongyeon Quotes

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.

When I write a song, I want to write something that is really catchy and says something that might actually touch somebody.

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

Anything is food for starting a song. A song can start with a lyric idea or a melody or just a sound that inspires.

I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.

I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic ideas, and then I'll go home and sit down and add the lyrics. Or sometimes I'll get a lyric idea that I love. Usually it's pretty combined. Usually I get some kind of a lyrical concept and a melody and work with that.

I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. The things that sound like they might be Crue, I put aside on my hard drive and keep them in that pile.

'In Case You Didn't Know' was written in Mexico, actually, on a songwriter's retreat.

I like to always do my best to make music catchy, so I think a very catchy melody is cool.

The song 'Try Too Hard' I wrote when I was 10 or 11.

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.

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful but at the same time very simple.

I come from a songwriter background, so essentially with my music, I'm trying to make songs that will last a lifetime and although 'Fast Car' was a cover, it reflects what I'm trying to do.

Before I ever had my record deal, I just had a publishing deal over at Sony ATV. I had that title, 'Flatliner,' and just the idea of a girl stopping everybody's heart - just kind of a fun idea.

Yeah, with 'NASARATI,' that was my first project. I really worked literally three days on it, writing on the beats and putting it together. I'm not saying that I don't love the mixtape, but it was really my first, first move in rap. I tried to make sure everything sound different, so you hear no two songs and think they sound alike.

I think I'm a good lyricist.

I wouldn't want to write a song in a pair of sneakers. I think it would be a horrible song.

No. 1, I'm a songwriter, and I don't really get out and tour.

I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.

It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.

I fell in love with the idea of writing songs when I was a child. I thought I was going to be a journalist at first, but I gradually fell in love with all these great writers like Irving Berlin and Cole Porter, who were at the peak of their powers then.

I've never been one to indulge in out and out depression when it comes to songwriting.

I'm a songwriter.

My first single was based around the mishearing of the words 'make believe' - 'I thought she said maple leaves.' That kind of stuff is very central to my music and my life.