Adam Hicks Quotes

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic ideas, and then I'll go home and sit down and add the lyrics. Or sometimes I'll get a lyric idea that I love. Usually it's pretty combined. Usually I get some kind of a lyrical concept and a melody and work with that.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

I really, really like writing songs.

The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.

The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.

I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

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

I've been writing songs since my teens.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.

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

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.