Vic Mensa Quotes

I just want to make the best music I can make.

'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally, but some other times I already have a strong idea of the story I would like to sing before any music comes to my mind.

I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.'

I usually write to the beat. Really, the beat can make the song itself.

Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to do.

Writing songs, especially with the instrumental stuff, it's difficult.

I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

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

When I was recording my first solo album 'Imaginaryland,' I was listening to a lot of movie scores.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.