Cody Simpson Quotes

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid.

I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

If you want to be a songwriter, you've got to obsess over it.

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

I used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

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.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.

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.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

At the end of the day, I'm a fan of great stories and great songs.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.