Tom DeLonge Quotes

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

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.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

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.

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.

It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

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

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.

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

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.

I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.