Victoria Monet Quotes

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

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

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.

The songs in 'Wonderland' don't have a melodic life for me - I'm not a musical person - but they have an emotional life, an emotional echo perhaps.

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

Music is only special when it's coming from a genuine place - it's just energy trapped in a bottle.

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

I honestly just hope to continue creating music that people can relate to and connect with in a personal way.

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

I'm always thinking about songs and how I can sing a song that would resonate with my voice, my persona. I want it to be a pleasant experience that's not just about hearing my voice. I remember some singers whose voices were so pretty, it didn't matter what they sang - you loved it.