Paul Rodgers Quotes

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

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

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

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.

It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

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 don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

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.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

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

When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

The words that I'm most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that's the same with music, really. If you're doing an album, there's ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times - it's difficult.

I think about it as not so much 'I need to get it out of me,' it's not that my thoughts are poison, I just want to write good music.

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.