Rico Love Quotes

Sometimes, I sit with my guitar and start playing... something or the other pops into my head... Basically, I write whatever that comes to my mind. I've written a lot of songs, but they are lying in my cupboard... I mean to do something about them someday.

I think I was blessed with this talent for a reason. No one told me how to write a song, but I'm just good at it, you know. There are a lot of other things in my life that I'm not so good at, but writing a song is not one of them.

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

For people who write songs, it's a gift you're given. You become good at the craft, but you're given the gift.

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

I can't force myself to make up a song. Music comes to me naturally.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

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.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

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 started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.

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

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.