Nate Ruess 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.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

Lyrics are really, really hard, I think, or at least they're really hard for me. Some people can channel lyrics faster. I find them very hard to find, so because of it, they take me a long time, and I really think about them.

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

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

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

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

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.

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

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

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

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

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 love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

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.

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

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

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.

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.

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.