Daniel Caesar Quotes

I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to do.

When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

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

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

I'm not a natural songwriter.

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.

I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that's my best attribute.

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.

I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid.

I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at.

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called 'Fingers Crossed,' which is on SoundCloud.

I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself.

Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.

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

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

I'm no songwriter because all of my popular songs have just been outgrowths of themes for the various pictures.