Feist Quotes

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

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.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

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

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

I often write songs, and when I do, I usually write quite a few of them. I really have to be in the mood.

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

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place in life: to keep my search and catch the ideas before they pass me by.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

There are no rules to writing a song.

The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

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.