Kristian Bush Quotes

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

We've written something like 900 songs in all.

Probably not much of a song left in me, you know, if any, because I've written so many, some 250 songs or 300 or whatever it is.

I teach songwriting a lot, and I always tell my students, 'You gotta write the little songs sometimes to get to the next big song in the chute.' You gotta write 'em to get to it. You never know what's going to be a little song or a big song.

Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

When you write a song, a song has longevity.

For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

I didn't write songs for a very long time.

The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.

As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar.

Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've twisted it and pulled at it and dug in and found a way to complete it. To get another one is the trick.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

I really want people to know I'm a songwriter.

I always wanted to be a songwriter, and it took a while.

I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a room with a guitar and make up songs! It is the greatest job in the world. I wrote three or four songs a day. That's what I lived for.

I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. The things that sound like they might be Crue, I put aside on my hard drive and keep them in that pile.

I've been adjusting to what it means to be a songwriter, figuring out what I like about it and what I don't like about it and what it means to me as opposed to other people.

Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.