Jessie James Decker Quotes

When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn't be disturbed; it really filled my day.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Well, I always write when I am inspired, and I am not a constant song-writer.

I used to do three or four songs a day, just write them - boom, boom, boom, and done - because of how spontaneous I was.

I write songs every day, 14 times a day.

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.

Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make a large container of espresso and just bang out a lot of words.

I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily break from the real book I'm writing. And then that becomes a real book too.

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

I can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.

I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.

The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist.

I like all kinds of stories, and I usually work on several stories at once. When I run out of gas on one, I start work on the other.

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.

Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year. I'm lucky to be one of the former - but, even so, if I'm not in the mood to write, I won't. I'll go off, do something else and come back to it when I'm ready.