Cynthia Weil Quotes

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

We made a decision very early on that George would be the main songwriter because it was very apparent to all of us that he was better at it.

For 'Hey Monday,' there were songs that I co-wrote with songwriters or producers, but our last EP, the whole band did everything together. I've had a lot of experience with co-writes, which is basically what I'm doing now. I am writing things on my own, but I really believe co-writing makes you a better writer.

'Never Forget You' was the first song I co-wrote.

Keith Richards has some sort of quote that says 'it takes two people to write a song,' and I'm of that school of thought, too.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.

Because of my interest in songwriting, I was invited to visit a friend in L.A. for songwriting sessions with him and his friends. We wrote six songs by the end of the weekend, and 'Hide Away' happened to be one of them!

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.

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'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.

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.

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out.

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

When I'm writing with John Leventhal, the music that he's written mostly comes first. And I'll write the lyrics and the melody.

I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with John Leventhal, and they were pretty bad. I was in my late twenties when I wrote the first song with him that made any sense to me about what I was rooted in and what spoke for me as an artist. That was 'Diamond in the Rough.'

When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part about writing songs. There are no rules.

When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write with a co-writer.

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

The only thing I don't write is the guitar solos, but even then I might suggest one or two things.