Kris Allen Quotes

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

I want to write with Taylor Swift!

With Rihanna, it's always a collaboration, and that's why I love her so much.

For 'Dynamite,' Max and Luke went to dinner and left me with a melody, and then I put it together.

'Heartless' is something Ann and I wrote together.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

I'm lucky to be collaborating with a lot of great songwriters/producers - and it's all about chemistry!

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

My dream collaboration is with Lauryn Hill. Is that ever gonna' happen? Who knows! But there's still a lot I feel like musically I could do.

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.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

Composing music is hard work.

If you're thinking the road ahead is a little shorter than the one behind you, you're thinking about trying to write a good song and hoping to make a decent record of it.

I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid.

I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words.

I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

Keith Richards has some sort of quote that says 'it takes two people to write a song,' and I'm of that school of thought, too.