Machine Gun Kelly Quotes

I don't know what it is really... I think I'm just good with hooks.

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

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

If you don't have a great chorus, write a good bridge first. I often do that and find I write good bridges.

When I learning to write songs, I never really was interested in the chorus.

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.

I bring up 'The Heist,' and you can almost cut that record down the middle between songs where the beat came first and the words came second, and songs where the words came first and the beat came second. It can start with a vibe, a beat that drives a story, or it can start with a story and then trying to identify the tone to tell that story right.

That's what I used to do; I would just go into the studio and just rap. But it's all about coming up with dope concepts and dope hooks.

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

My first song was called 'Portrait.' It would just be poetry, and I really never understood how to write the structure of writing a song. I just knew the feeling, and I knew it was supposed to break and change at the same part, so that's how I write music.