Francoise Hardy Quotes

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

I think any great song is difficult to write, in some aspect. It's just difficult to make somebody feel something. That is the main goal. How do you make somebody want to get up and dance? How do you make somebody feel okay after their breakup?

I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most.

Lyrics are important, but it's hard, because English isn't my first language - although it feels like it is these days! I grew up with amazing melodies, so getting that right on a song has always been the key thing for me, but there's no reason why a great melody doesn't deserve great lyrics.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick up the guitar to develop the song. Other times I just write without any melodies, and I end up using those lyrics when I think I have the appropriate instrumental that would bring out and depict the emotions of what I have written.

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words.

When I write a song, I want to write something that is really catchy and says something that might actually touch somebody.

I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.

Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'

I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.