Toby Keith Quotes

The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?

We're resolving our differences and we're looking forward to putting out a record next year.

For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.' And you know what they say? 'I could never do that!'

I write so much and I release so much music that I think I'm less precious about that stuff than a lot of people.

I'm not the type of person who makes a lot of songs in a day just to see which one is the best.

The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

A lot of people like structure, so there's definitely a risk with being an artist that a lot of people aren't really willing to take.

I'm not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it's so that people really know what Bad Bunny's about.

It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do.

My primary goal is to be a solo artist releasing original music.

That's what I do: I drop albums, and I just keep it moving.

I knew right from the beginning that if I was going to write a book, I would write my version of the truth and then put it out there for people to decide if they will accept it or hate me.

You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them.

I just make my music. It's not too complicated.

If you're a super-producer, you can produce whatever you want to produce. That's where I'm at.

A lot of people are like, "How are you going to re-do it?" I'm not worried about what people are going to say because you know people are gonna be like, "It doesn't sound like this... It sounds like this." I'm just going to make music that I know I'm supposed to make.

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

The difference of human being behind the guy on the page is in writing, I'm no longer conscious of personal repercussions because for that moment they don't exist. At times, I tell myself, Well, I can always go back and change that or take it out, and I find out that I rarely do. Couple little things here and there: Do unto others. Be a good scout. With all the ironies that entails, I go by that. That's a good way to live.

Part of writing is discovering the rules of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them. The great thing about the game of poetry is that it's always your turn - I guess that goes back to my being an only child. So once it's under way, there is a sense of flow.

I get so much energy and I learn so much through collaborating with other people. Ultimately, I think the best music will always be created through collaborations - pooling together skills to create something bigger than any individual. I like to use my own SOPHIE material to present ideas in their most extreme, un-compromised form. I really use those opportunities to express exactly where I'm at in terms of production and writing ideas, as a document of my thoughts and feelings, as well.

I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.