Hunter Parrish Quotes

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

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

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

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

If you want to be a songwriter, you've got to obsess over it.

The first song I ever wrote was in grade eight.

On a good night, I probably make three songs, and none of them are full songs.

I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.

Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to do.

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

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 many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

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

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

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

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

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

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.

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

Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write something new and record it.