Ideas Quote by Benji Madden

I call it a process of elimination. You're nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there's so many, what I say, 'great…

— Robert Trujillo

I always work on the songs all together up until the very end. I never mix a song and think, "Okay, now that one's…

— Adam Granduciel

Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've…

— Jakob Dylan

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky…

— Cher Lloyd

Songs can click together really quickly, and other times, they're really laborious and heavy-lifting.

— James Murphy

Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one.…

— Prince

You have to sit with the songs until they start to live. Or do things straight-up spontaneously. I set up a beat just like…

— Jamie Lidell

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on…

— Van Morrison

I've tried to do every album in a different style, which is why I tend to leave a fair bit of time between each…

— Jon Hopkins

Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and…

— Chris de Burgh

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward…

— Doug Martsch

I write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another,…

— Nick Cave