Lorde Quotes

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

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.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

I started writing songs at age 15.

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

I've been writing songs since my teens.

I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.

I never wanted to write really cheesy pop lyrics - like, 'baby, baby, the sun is shining' - that's not something that interests me personally. I'm always wanting to write something that has some kind of meaning.

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

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.