Moon Unit Zappa Quotes

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

I think there's a good pop song in pretty much anything.

I like hooks and choruses, things people can sing to.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.

Pop is like a puzzle: to write a perfect pop song, you never know, and there's so much that can happen in a second with a song.

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.

I'm used to making songs; that's how I learned to make music. My structures will always be more like pop songs than dance tracks.

I like mantras and repeating things, like in pop music, where you repeat a line over and over again. It's just so beautiful.

The 'Hey Monday' songs were always glammed up to be this big production, and I definitely want there to be some bells and whistles like synth or drum loops, but for the most part, I want a simple yet powerful production.

I don't really focus on if what I'm writing is pop or not. I just write music and then I try to figure out how to arrange the things that I write.

Making vocal hooks is my favorite thing to do. That's what I love about songwriting - making catchy stuff.

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 write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

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.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

I think the key to writing hit songs is simplicity.

If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material.

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

I wrote a song called 'Pretty Little Dead Girl.'