Alexander Chee Quotes

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.

It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.

There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say, 'It is yet more difficult than you thought.' It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.

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

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

Music is supposed to be inspired.

I don't know what really makes a great musical or not. In the end, you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

I'm just like anybody else: I have stuff to do in the day, whether that's writing a song or recording a song. I try to treat everything I do as just work.

I began seeing certain things happen in my life and other people's lives and getting inspired by it and writing about it. And that's where you get 'Happy Birthday' from and 'Ross Capicchioni' from or you even get 'I'm Sorry' from.

There was never an 'a-ha' moment when a spider bit me and I knew I could write songs. For that reason, I don't know if I'm always going to be able to. I want to write songs forever, but it's an elusive thing.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

The basis of everything I do is down to the song. If I don't have the song I don't sing, and if I don't sing I don't perform.

Singing has been a passion of mine, equal to or greater than acting, ever since I was very small.

If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.