Zara Larsson Quotes

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.

With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.

I'd love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.

I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words.

I love writing songs for other people, and it's an honor when someone records your songs.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

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.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

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

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

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.

I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.

I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.