The Weeknd Quotes

I'm definitely trying to make songs that people can sing along to and remember. If you can recognize a chorus and leave with it in your head, it's usually a good sign. But then with the verses, I can get a little more free form. I don't really like to copy and paste things.

Success is good, but I have seen the other side. I don't think much about it. I just work towards making a good melody, with catchy yet meaningful lyrics, and as I'm a music producer and arranger myself, I know the sound I need.

A timeless pop song is the hardest thing to do as a songwriter.

There's something about making a song that everybody can sing and remember, and when you listen to it the first time, you already know the words by the second chorus, like you've always known the song. I'm obsessed with that idea.

I like to always do my best to make music catchy, so I think a very catchy melody is cool.

'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful but at the same time very simple.

My first album after 'American Idol' I did with Desmond - we paid for it together, and we literally were together working on it every day for a year and half, just writing. We wrote in New York, Nashville, L.A., Sweden - we wrote with some other amazing songwriters like Diane Warren, too.

I could see no other way of doing something with my life apart from music.

Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.

Honestly, if acting never worked out, I would have done music.

At the end of the day I'm not just sending beats in. I'm mixing the song. I'm recording the song. I'm engineering the song. I'm in the studio helping with the songwriting. I'm doing the whole beat - every single piece of it is me.

I think for me to be involved in a festival, there has to be a strong element of songwriting and musicianship.

I want to make the greatest record ever made. It's the only thing I can think about.

Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.

All I've ever wanted to do is master my craft. I'm a singer, and I want to be a great singer.

I have a very varied taste in music from Boards of Canada to Radiohead. So I just love making music and being in the studio.

We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.

Music is my passion.

Let's just say, I went to Sweden for a reason, to make music.

Definitely, I want to continue doing films and television, but my heart is in music. I've written for most of my life.

No. 1, I'm a songwriter, and I don't really get out and tour.

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

The first time I ever had a song play on a legit radio station, I think I was about 13. It was a song of mine that I had written called 'Young Blood.'

I still love to go in the studio and write and all that.

I like to play the guitar and the ukulele.