FKA twigs Quotes

You can't force music; It just has to come to you.

The words that I'm most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that's the same with music, really. If you're doing an album, there's ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times - it's difficult.

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

I let the song come to me. Then that thing comes to you, and you just know what that thing is. Music isn't like a 9-to-5 job. You never know. It's just the most unpredictable thing.

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

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

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.

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'

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

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

When making a film, if I feel nothing in my body, I can't work. I have to touch. I have to feel. I never stop touching.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

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'm just trying to make my favorite music. That's how I work; I just do things based on the way they feel to me. I want to be touched by the music I'm making. Luckily, other people have shared that response to my work over the years.

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

I don't do my best work while I'm in therapy. I'm too onto myself immediately seeing meanings in things and more likely to censor myself. I'd rather find images I don't understand. That's what generates the work.

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.