Aditya Roy Kapur Quotes

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

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

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

I started writing songs at age 15.

I've been writing songs since my teens.

I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.

I can't force myself to make up a song. Music comes to me naturally.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

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

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes, and sometimes it lasts all day.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

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 only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.