Amanda Shires Quotes

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

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.

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

Some songs just fall out of you. And some you have to wrestle out like an abscess.

If you write songs long enough, you run out of material that's original to yourself.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

I write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up with a line, or somebody will say something that will trigger something.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

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.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for 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.

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.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.