Dennis Lloyd Quotes

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things you'd want to say.

Music is just where I sort of write my emotions down.

For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

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

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

My music is like a diary. I use every experience.

A lot of writers don't know what it feels like to get on stage. They don't understand the weight that songs can carry. I got a chance to play all these shows. I got a chance to define myself through music, so when it comes to helping other people figure out what they should say, I've been through it.

Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff in there.

About 25 years ago, when I was 15, I wrote a song called 'Indradhanush', which speaks about the seven colours, equating each with emotions that we as human beings experience.

I live vicariously through my songs.

I write a song for myself because I need to come out with that particular song.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.