Ric Ocasek Quotes

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

I just can't wait to continue creating music.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I play guitar all the time, and I'm constantly thinking of songs... Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs, all different bands I've been in. Sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with Slipknot, and I just can't use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened.

I think, now that I've been writing songs in general, whether it's for the group or for me, I definitely feel like I got a little trigger happy, because it was so exciting to have production and create and put a lot in there.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

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

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.

I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm the head of the orchestra, and I'm just waving my wand, and something is created.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.

I just want to focus on creating more music.

I'm always writing music.