Jason Bonham Quotes

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy. I wrote about everyday stuff.

You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

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

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.

Pressure has always been more of a friend than a foe for me with songwriting.

I started writing songs later in life because I just couldn't commit to it before.

I'm So Sorry' is probably one of my favorite songs that I've written... I wrote it very quickly and confidently. And then I didn't question it.

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

I am so blessed to do what I love to do, but becoming a solo artist terrified me!

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

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.

If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

There are so many great songs yet to sing.

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.

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

There are no rules to writing a song.

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

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

Whenever I meet someone who's talented, I always want to write something for them!

You can't help but have your children and your family be part of what you dream about when you dream up a song.