Fiona Apple Quotes

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

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

I think the work process' - composers do not get enough time to make a good song. That's the one thing which needs to be changed.

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

It all comes together. It's - that's the way it's always worked for me with songwriting.

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

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

Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.

I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.

On a good night, I probably make three songs, and none of them are full songs.