Momo Hirai Quotes

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

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

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

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

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

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

I try to make things that are fresh and different, even if they are inspired by classic things.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

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

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.

I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.

I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.