Rex Orange County Quotes

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

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 think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

We didn't want to worry about the formula that has been implanted into our brains - this verse/pre-chorus/chorus format. When we were writing 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea about any of that. We didn't know how to count bars or how to write what's considered a well-formatted pop song.

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 like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.

In the case of, like, Childish Gambino, he is someone who is a writer by trade, so he is very meticulous about how he writes his ideas. I don't do this with a lot of artist, but he would give me a treatment that he wants to do, and I'll go off that; then I'll give him feedback and pitch him my ideas.

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music.

I don't spend afternoons practicing my guitar to get better. I do read, though, to get inspiration for my lyrics.

I'm always writing music.

All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.

My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.

Basically, I'm a melodic writer.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.