Quotes About Innovation

It's not enough to play the old songs; that feels like being your own covers band or something. It's a big release to do new stuff.

I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs.

I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B.

'Drip or Drown 2' is more me, more songs. I enhanced it more, even with the cover itself.

It's nice to play new songs, but it's nerve-wracking.

Me and Thugger could make nine songs in a day and then choose which songs we like the most and think is gonna do something. With other people, it's like, we pick one song, and we hope it's the one.

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

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.

But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.

As an artiste you want to experiment, meet new people and do different kind of songs.

I love rethinking and reimagining songs.

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.

Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.

When I learning to write songs, I never really was interested in the chorus.

I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.

I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me.

I think everyone mentions Bob Dylan, but he's someone I just admire so much as a songwriter. I think people write songs, and then there's Bob Dylan songs. He's one step ahead of just everybody else.

As a songwriter, we're looking for a good story, and we're always looking to push the limits.

Every so often, you have a producer or a songwriter or both or a team that comes along and really reshapes and redefines sonically what music is and the interpretation of it to the masses.

That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you start imitating yourself.

I would love to work with Calvin Harris because I think he's a really good songwriter and producer and he does everything, which I like.

When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing out, then record an album. Instead, I worked with people I knew would be good songwriters out of an idea how I thought it would sound like.

The '80s was an interesting, confining time for songwriters, so we were just sort of riffing in our own language, off to the side.