Jack Garratt Quotes

I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

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

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

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

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

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

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

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

It doesn't matter where I'm at - if I'm somewhere sitting still for more than an hour, rhymes start popping in my head... It's just kinda instilled in me.

The 'sent' folder of my email program is really my biggest inspiration and my biggest source of lyrics. That's where I go to pick up a lot of the lyrics that I'm writing.

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

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good.

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

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

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

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

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time.