Imogen Heap Quotes

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.

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

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.

There are definitely times - and I think this is pretty common among cartoonists - where you spend an entire day trying to think of an idea, and you're like, 'I give up.' And then you go and take a shower or run an errand, and halfway there, you get an idea.

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

Not all ideas are like a twinkling star in the sky, and you get inspired to make a record the next day.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

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

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

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.

My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'