Gin Wigmore Quotes

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

I'm always trying to find myself little holes where I can do some songwriting.

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.

Maybe my songs are my partner. How 'bout that? Yeah, the biggest relationship I have is with my songs.

Most people think a song is a song - three minutes, and you're done. I don't think this way. Songs are my wings. They're what I use to fly. It's very important for me to put everything in the right place.

I've been able to carve my way out with lyrics and melodies.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.

Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.

When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.

Sometimes I feel like I'm taking on a role when I'm writing a song, and it doesn't always have to be true. I'm not sitting in my room crying with my guitar, writing a slow solo about a depressing breakup; that's not me.

I write my music.

I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really personal for me, that sort of creative outlet where you put your emotions to paper or put to song. I don't do it that much anymore, but to let someone in on that outlet and to have it susceptible to judgment is scary.

I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.