Chris Lowe Quotes

Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.

Literally wrote 'Starboy' in 30 minutes.

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.

I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

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

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

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

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.

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.

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

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

'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 find lyrics can come at any time during the day, as can music.

I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my head, and I'll write it down and file it away for another time.

It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.

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

I usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in the middle of the night because that's when my mind is the quietest. I always have my tape recorder, pen and pad by my bed just in case.

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

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.

Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.