Redfoo Quotes

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

Music is supposed to be inspired.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

I probably get most of my inspiration through music.

Some songs just fall out of you. And some you have to wrestle out like an abscess.

You can't help but have ideas when you're inspired musically.

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.

As much as I love performing, nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period. Songs, ideas, even paintings are pouring out of me. My inspiration and usual subject matter: life.

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.

I'm inspired to write songs in many different ways - it can come from a melody, a word or phrase or something I have seen on my travels around the world. It's one of the great bonuses of my job in that I get to meet so many people and experience different cultures and it would be hard not to be inspired.

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.

I'm creating songs. I do it most of the time, in the car or in the house.

There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.