Mac Miller Quotes

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs. I remember staying locked up in a room with my piano and just singing and writing songs all day long. I remember being a perfectionist about it... wanting to change this and fix that.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

As long as you continue to have new songs, there's usually some new topic or something to present.

All the big loud housey songs came from the idea of 'I want to create the same song over and over again.' Except that I've created each one in a different location, or a different mindset.

For me, music is just one road. I dont have a specific pursuit; generally. I just try to be more aware of myself.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

One of the things that's been nice about my career is that I've been able to do so many different things, and variety keeps your creative soul fulfilled. I'm constantly looking to find new things to do. It's just project to project for me. You never know where the next thing's going to come from.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I think I've always approached making albums pretty much the same way. I'm just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren't the same thing over and over.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is being honest with myself: What am I into right now? Is it rock bands and guitars, is it noise, is it dance beats and electronics? Is it space, is it clutter?

I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.