Adam Granduciel Quotes

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

I love writing songs. One of the toughest things is structure; it just works when you use verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. And as soon as you become aware of that formula, you start to have a bad conscience when you write with that particular structure.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

Literally wrote 'Starboy' in 30 minutes.

When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write with a co-writer.

Lyrics are really, really hard, I think, or at least they're really hard for me. Some people can channel lyrics faster. I find them very hard to find, so because of it, they take me a long time, and I really think about them.

Ever since I started writing music, I've wanted to know what the songs are about and to be able to tell stories.

I'm definitely trying to make longer songs, but if it's short and good, I'm not going to do anything about it.

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

As a songwriter, simplicity - what not to do, what not to play - can be the hardest thing to achieve.

I write songs every day, but I don't necessarily get to record them.

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

'Free Mind' was a song written over a couple of years. It was pretty much three different songs that I couldn't figure out how to put together - until one day, when I was in the studio, it kind of just fell into place.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

I almost gave up on 'Door' so many times. I couldn't crack it. It started out as a simple song with just a chorus-verse-chorus. I felt like it needed to transform more.

Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.

I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days.

Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come easy and sometimes they're a pain in the ass.

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first time you hear it, and wanting to really stretch out. I think it's a healthy tension.

I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures and things like that. It's much easier to just write on the page.