Andrew Eldritch Quotes

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

I do have musical background; I sing.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

I've always been able to write. I've always been able to put a good essay in or say whatever I wanted to say through the pen. That was a gift of mine. I feel like it was what I was meant to do.

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

I came to the Unites States and realised I had a knack for coming up with rhymes and lyrics.

I've been a musician and a songwriter for years, since I was a teenager, and made my living doing that on and off for a long time, so when it came to writing comedy material, it was the thing that came easiest to me, the most natural way of writing.

I know I can cut it with any songwriters in the world.

I think I was blessed with this talent for a reason. No one told me how to write a song, but I'm just good at it, you know. There are a lot of other things in my life that I'm not so good at, but writing a song is not one of them.

I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.

I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

I'm not just a singer-songwriter doing songs in the key of me.

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

There's always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn't be writing songs. Then there's always gonna be guys who move up the ranks writing. I don't know what's healthier or what's the best thing - probably whatever yields the best songs.

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.