Dizzee Rascal Quotes

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

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

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

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.

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.

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