Tom Glazer Quotes

Capitol Records were very keen for me to write and see how I got on; I think that is what defined my sound. The first session I had was with two young up-and-coming writers, Nick Atkinson and Tom Wilding, and I went into a session a bit nervous because I hadn't written that many songs before.

I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that's what's big in Nashville - the collaborative part of songwriting.

I write a lot of my own music. I usually go in with a producer, and every now and then there will be another writer in the room.

Before I started writing for myself, I was writing country records, and they were coming out dope.

I've written for Rita Ora; I've written for Chiddy Bang - there's been a few.

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

Being in Weezer's just gotten so much more fun over the years. I love almost every part of my job. My very favorite part is working on new songs.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.

I'll hear a beat and think, 'How can I make this a banger?' I'll write the lyrics on my phone or on a piece of paper, and either way, it's going to be a slapper.

I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John is the great melody and song writer but Bernie Taupin is the one who writes all the lyrics. I don't write lyrics, and I never wanted to be in the music business if I was just going to be a puppet in it.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a room with a guitar and make up songs! It is the greatest job in the world. I wrote three or four songs a day. That's what I lived for.

I didn't know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people. I always thought that George Strait was singing a song, he made it up, and that was the end of it. But the instant I found that out, that that could be a job, I thought, 'That's the job for me. I gotta figure out how to do that.'

I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally, but some other times I already have a strong idea of the story I would like to sing before any music comes to my mind.

I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.

'In Case You Didn't Know' was written in Mexico, actually, on a songwriter's retreat.

Some people are songwriters, and some people are just recording artists. I'm both. I write and record.

I want to literally quit drag and go live in the woods somewhere and write music for my favorite female singers, like Miley Cyrus or Kacey Musgraves. I would love to be able to write music for them and hear these women I admire sing my songs. That would be like doing drag without having to get into drag myself.

I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.