Big Sean Quotes

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

Anything that's really made an impact on my life, I want to get in the studio and write about it.

It only takes me about four days to write an album. It don't take that long. I just gotta have the feeling. If I don't have the feeling, it's a different story. I gotta be in the mood.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

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

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

I am always thinking about writing music; my wife is constantly asking me: 'Is there any way you can turn off the music part of your brain for a minute?' but I really can't! It's my form of therapy.

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.