Beck Quotes

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'

I find inspiration in many places. Sometimes music gives me the kernel of a story. Sometimes it's dissatisfaction with the plot of a movie or a book that gets me thinking. Sometimes it's love of a movie or book.

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different.

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas.

I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.

I think I always have many ideas for books in my head. It's like a forest full of mushrooms. Some are big, some are small.

When I'm writing, I'll just say random stuff that doesn't make sense, and then a certain word that I keep saying will stick out, and I'll write from there.

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

I keep my options open about my next story, there will always be those vague discussions at home.

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

A couple of days working with Joe Jonas, I thought, 'This guy is a slayer of a singer; he's really funny, goofy, and sexy. We need to write that.' And that led to 'Cake By The Ocean.'

There are producers, like the late Geoffrey Perkins, who have truly great ideas that will fire up your synapses and show you that handing in your first draft is not the end of a horrible process, but the beginning of a beautiful one.