Jenny Scheinman Quotes

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

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

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

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

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.

When I walked into the studio, the chorus of 'Nobody Love' was already set. For me, the challenge was to make it have depth.

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

I write my music.