Corin Tucker Quotes

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that.

I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.

Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

When you write a song, a song has longevity.

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.

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.

I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way over to a song like 'Losing My Mind,' where you're just reading my thoughts as they're occurring.

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.

I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.

I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time.

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.