Lianne La Havas Quotes

Composing is an emotional thing.

Sometimes a song can be born in few minutes, if the feeling is right, some other times it can take days.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've twisted it and pulled at it and dug in and found a way to complete it. To get another one is the trick.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?

I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

You can only follow what's on your mind. In fact, a song is something you write because you can't sleep unless you write it.

Song writing has been a lifeline for me.

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

If I don't feel anything, I don't write music.

I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.

I need all of my songs while I'm writing them, because I need to get the stuff out of my body and out of my brain. I write out of necessity, not because I want to be a pop star.

If I'm happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I'm usually not at the piano writing about it.

I describe my projects using colors because it's the best way to describe 'em. I would say that 'Moon Shoes' was way more colorful than a lot of my other music, just because I was pulling from so many different places. Imagine learning how to talk for the first time, and you're just saying everything.

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.