Quotes About Songwriting

I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.

I didn't disappear; I started writing songs and worked behind the scenes.

I just tried to disappear and write songs.

Although I was writing songs when I was younger, I didn't feel I had much of a clue as to what I was doing or how I was doing it. There are a few songs from my past where I thought, 'Well, that's pretty decent,' but I didn't have a discipline. I suppose I'm kind of a late bloomer.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

When I started writing songs at 18, I wrote about 100 that were crap. One was called 'Dog In A Disco.'

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

It'll never get old to hear a song that I wrote on the radio or to hear what someone experienced when they heard a song I wrote.

When you've had a chance to live some experiences then you can really write, and not having lived that much when I was young I didn't have much to write about. Now having seen life, the songs seem to come easier.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

I feel like trying to write a song in order to be a big hit is just not something I'm interested in because it's not going to come from an authentic place of expression.

When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.

I understand that all the songs I write are quite melodramatic and are quite extreme from my perspective, but that's how life feels to everyone at some point.

I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people's songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels - whatever little girls sing about.

How can you sing a line like, 'I've fallen out of love' when you're 18? You need to experience something of life before you can sing it.

As a firm believer in the power of songwriting, I feel privileged to be part of a team that continues to help us all understand the true force and impact of lyrics and music around the world. Genius is special - it's remixing the digital playbook and owning a new space in music and tech.

I'm a great believer in not over-thinking lyrics. You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs great.

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.

With every record, with each band, I just try to make a song good. I'm not so much focusing on my technique. There are a million better drummers than me. I try to adapt to the songwriter; I try to adapt to the situation and retain my sort of melodic power. My goal is for the band to be good.

If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you're sort of writing the same song over and over again.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

There's a lot of little 'Bonnie-isms' in 'Teenage Dream' that I was hoping to keep for myself.