The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band. — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead. — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach. — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
We were always in the shadows of the stuff that was getting more attention. So people learned to listen to us slowly… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
“I never sit and fill a journal with lyrics. Most of the time I'm trying to write a feeling, not a story.… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
I'm trying to figure out how to record at home because I have a tiny house and a seven-year-old and my wife… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
When you realize that the baby's healthy and born, it's a release and you're so happy. — Matt Berninger Copy Share
Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave know best. Although I wear a lot of jeans, I've been told that Nick Cave doesn't own a pair… — Matt Berninger Copy Share
Weirdly, I was still trying to be the older brother, and trying to get him [Tom Berninger] to try to be more like me… — Matt Berninger Copy Share
It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a… — Matt Berninger Copy Share
When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is… — Matt Berninger Copy Share
A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going… — Matt Berninger Copy Share
I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and… — Matt Berninger Copy Share
I'm a stubborn guy that loses his temper, sometimes driving the station wagon in the wrong direction for hours and hours and never admitting… — Matt Berninger Copy Share
I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social… — Matt Berninger Copy Share
A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right. — Matt Berninger Copy Share
The same song can have drastically different feels and personalities just by changing some minor things. A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could… — Matt Berninger Copy Share
I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after. — Matt Berninger Copy Share
