LP Quotes

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

I think there's a good pop song in pretty much anything.

When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.

I'm used to making songs; that's how I learned to make music. My structures will always be more like pop songs than dance tracks.

With 'Under the Pressure,' I just found two chords I liked, and built it up, did like a ten-minute drum pattern.

I like hooks and choruses, things people can sing to.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place, and you're enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

The original 'Don't Let It Get to You' started with a beat. The drums came first. All the musical and lyrical elements were written over those drums.

There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.

Lyrics is the face of any song. The combination of composition, lyrics and singing is what makes a song a song.

Music is so unpredictable, but it's universal.

It varies from song to song, but melody was always easy for me.