Sia Furler Quotes

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

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.

Pop is like a puzzle: to write a perfect pop song, you never know, and there's so much that can happen in a second with a song.

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

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

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

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.

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

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

I'm used to making songs; that's how I learned to make music. My structures will always be more like pop songs than dance tracks.

Lyrics is the face of any song. The combination of composition, lyrics and singing is what makes a song a song.

I find it really easy to write on the bass, because you kind of get straight to the point: you do lyrics and melody without thinking about decorating the song until after you've finished it.

I like hooks and choruses, things people can sing to.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

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

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.

I had no idea what those cords were in the bridge of 'Prisoner In Disguise' when I wrote them. I had to go over to Don Gorman, the piano player, and ask what in the world I was playing.