Wayne Coyne Quotes

I was constantly in the studio at my home writing ideas that would later become 'Hotel California' or 'Victim of Love.'

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. The things that sound like they might be Crue, I put aside on my hard drive and keep them in that pile.

Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.

My friends started making music, and then I started making covers because I was like, 'I don't have anything to write, but I like music.' So I would just cover Frank Ocean songs.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

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

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

I always like to write the songs, and they get turned loose into the world, and who knows what happens to them. That's the joy of being a songwriter. You get to hear what other people do, interpretation-wise.

I always try to write the best song I can in the moment, and those songs are often going to end up on Death Cab for Cutie records. I don't set out to write a solo song or write a band song. I just write, and where that songs ends up is kind of TBD.

A lot of people hear things on the radio and try to make their own version of that.

I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

I just like a beat that grabs me. And then I'll come up with a concept after. I like to take my time with music.

I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story.

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.