Kendrick Lamar Quotes

I'm always writing. It might be a bad song, but I'm always writing.

I write every day. Most weekdays, I write about ten hours a day. That doesn't mean eight hours of surfing the Net or watching videos on YouTube. I park my butt in a chair and write... I learned that writer's block is a myth created by people who don't have, or understand, a writing process.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

I often write songs, and when I do, I usually write quite a few of them. I really have to be in the mood.

I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.

I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

Some writers sit down every day for two or three hours, at least, to write, whether they are in the mood or not. Others wait for inspiration.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

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

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren't any shortcuts. You can't write an algorithm for it. You can't predict it. You can't code it.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.