Anitta Quotes

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

I play guitar all the time, and I'm constantly thinking of songs... Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs, all different bands I've been in. Sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with Slipknot, and I just can't use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened.

With Mr. Bungle, I'd lay down a really rough demo of my vocals and then play them for the guys without telling them what I was saying. Our drummer at the time had the coolest takes on what he thought I was saying, so I'd ask him to write out what he thought the lyrics were.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

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

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.

I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.