Neal Adams Quotes

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.

I really, really like writing songs.

I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

We do write our own music.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

I don't enjoy songwriting.

I'm not a natural songwriter.

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

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

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

There's something to writing a hook and something to writing a memorable melody. That's what I liked about musicals. Then I realized I could write my own songs, and I didn't have to sing other people's.

We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.

I love writing music.

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics, and I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.