The Weeknd Quotes

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

I started writing music around 20 years old.

I don't intend to stop making music.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, it's a vulnerable place to be in, it's a huge thing to do.

I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

I was working at a non-profit for five years. But I could always create music after work. All throughout those years, I was writing songs and recording music and performing around town.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

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 was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.

I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer.

As long as I can make albums, I will.

I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

I had a project called 'Cover Art,' which was the first project I did under the new name Anderson .Paak. I went through this process where I was recording new music for about six months straight.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

I don't think I wrote my first song until I was 25. And then everything I wrote ended up becoming my first album. I put my music online, and from that, things just happened.

I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.