Jade Bird Quotes

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I've always had good songs, it's the great songs that are difficult to find.

Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.

I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.

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

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

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.

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

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

The thing I ran up against was everybody wanted a song so fast. It took me two years to finish 'Touch Me in the Morning.'

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.

I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough.

I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.