Lyrics Writing Quotes

It's really hard for me to finish a song unless I have a strong visual in my head while I'm writing it.

When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.

You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.

I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

If you ask me, I'd say what the world now considers K-Pop began with SM Entertainment. SM was the very first company to take musical influences from Western culture and incorporate Korean culture into that by rearranging and writing lyrics with our style.

I have to be inspired to write a song.

When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.'

I'd rather get a hot dog or a doughnut than write a song.

I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

I wanna do a song with Macklemore. I really wanna do a song with him.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

I remember making up songs in my head.

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write with a co-writer.

Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.

I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well.

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.

The first rhymes I wrote, I was 9. It was Kool Moe Dee-style.

Howard Ashman was an amazing lyricist and an amazing artist.

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.