Corey Taylor Quotes

I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

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 actually wrote the lyrics for 'Goodbye' in 10 minutes.

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.

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

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

I write in the studio.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.

'Southern Accents,' I think that's one of my best, really. That would have been 1984, and I wrote that on the piano in the studio at home. I had a studio, and I just happened to be down there in the middle of the night. It was quite late, probably early morning, and I just started to play, and a song just started to appear.

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

The whole idea of doing an album is overwhelming sometimes. But, I get inspired when I get inspired and that's when it flows easily.

If you don't have a great chorus, write a good bridge first. I often do that and find I write good bridges.

I used to do three or four songs a day, just write them - boom, boom, boom, and done - because of how spontaneous I was.

The most common time I write lyrics is the middle of the night.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.