Song Writing Quotes

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.