Manika Quotes

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

I write the best songs I can.

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

Sing your heart out and write the best song you possible can.

I definitely think the best songs are written when you feel something strongly.

I think I was born to be a songwriter.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

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

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.

Music is in everything I do.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.