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I tend to write songs that are about something pretty specific. A lot of them tell some kind of little made-up story.
Adam Schlesinger
Tell
Kind
Some
Pretty
About
Something
Tend
Write
Songs
Lot
Story
Little
Them
Specific
I think I initially started inventing characters in my songs because I didn't want to write directly about myself. Also, as a kid, I loved all the character names in Beatles songs, like Eleanor Rigby and Lovely Rita and Mean Mr. Mustard and Maxwell and Rocky Raccoon.
Adam Schlesinger
Myself
Character
Beatles
Think
Kid
Characters
Mustard
About
Inventing
Directly
Rita
Write
Beatles Songs
Songs
Like
Names
Also
Because
Rocky
Maxwell
Want
Loved
Lovely
Mean
Initially
Started
I am not very regimented unless I have to be. I wish I was someone that could just write every day, but I tend to work on specific projects for a specific period of time and then stop.
Adam Schlesinger
Work
Time
Day
Every Day
Wish
Every
Unless
Projects
Someone
Tend
Could
Write
Period
Am
Very
Just
Stop
Then
Specific
I normally write on acoustic guitar, although piano is the instrument that I actually studied. Occasionally, I'll write on the piano or sometimes with no instrument at all.
Adam Schlesinger
Guitar
Sometimes
Write
Piano
Studied
Instrument
Occasionally
Although
Normally
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Actually
It would probably be better if I got involved in fewer things just because I'd have more time to write for my own purposes... But if somebody calls you up with a really cool project, it's hard to just say 'no' because you don't feel like working.
Adam Schlesinger
Time
You
Better
Somebody
Own
Project
Say
Would
My Own
More
Purposes
Write
Feel
Like
Involved
Calls
Because
Got
Up
Fewer
Just
Just Because
Really
Working
Hard
Cool
Things
If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.
Adele
Love
Time
Be Happy
Happy
Plant
Nice
Enough
Enough Time
Relationships
Kids
Married
Constantly
Record
Some
Write
Vegetable
Fail
Know
Am
Least
Patch
Get
Get Married
Then
Working
Now
I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
Adele
Love
Broken
Heart
Everyone
Elusive
About
Write
Songs
Like
Knows
Heart Broken
Your
Specific
Thing
The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.'
Adele
God
Me
Song
Writing
Win
Believe
Way
Kind
Totally
About
Write
Songs
Over
Like
Because
Always
End
Up
Personal
Oh
Artists
Oh My God
Being
Straight
Convince
Why
Away
Thing
I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.
Adele
You
Heart
Song
Giving
Else
Able
Someone
Write
Like
Sing
Because
Get
Personal
Your
Away
I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
Adele
Would
Would-Be
Record
Write
Cliche
Another
Real
Breakup
I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.
Adele
Love
Me
People
Nurture
Other
Write
No-One
Songs
New
Talent
Always
Manager
Artist
Wants
Sometimes, I sit with my guitar and start playing... something or the other pops into my head... Basically, I write whatever that comes to my mind. I've written a lot of songs, but they are lying in my cupboard... I mean to do something about them someday.
Aditya Roy Kapur
Guitar
Sometimes
Mind
Sit
Whatever
Other
Lying
Someday
About
Something
Write
Songs
Written
Head
Lot
Cupboard
Mean
Them
Pops
Start
Playing
Basically
I am an incurable romantic. I am even in love with the idea of being in love, and hence, I write a lot of love songs.
Adnan Sami
Love
Love Songs
Incurable
Write
Songs
Idea
Am
Lot
Being
Romantic
Being In Love
Even
Hence
The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.
Adora Svitak
Love
Me
Other
Other Kids
Kids
Out
Tried
Struck
Write
Idea
Schools
Make
Read
Around
Were
Did
Just
Just As Much
Much
Who
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
Adriana Trigiani
Silence
Total
Write
Like
Dryer
Sound
Am
Quiet
Going
Even
Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.
Adriana Trigiani
Character
Me
World
Sit
Down
Everything
Objects
Small
Clean
Write
Remind
Am
Going
Candles
Orderly
Working
Bring
When I was young, I was stupid, and I thought maybe I would write the fancy stuff.
Adriana Trigiani
Thought
Stupid
Young
Would
Write
Stuff
Maybe
Fancy
I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a woman on the cover.
Adriana Trigiani
Man
Woman
Women
Book
About
Except
Write
Had
New
New Jersey
Cover
Decorator
Even
Novels
Jersey
Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really good at focusing in on each writers voice and setting. When I felt like I was obligated to write a story that was more typical, no one really liked it.
Aimee Bender
Good
Creative
Experience
Writing
Evil
Setting
Programs
Typical
Focusing
Some
Totally
Seem
Obligated
More
Voice
Write
Writers
No-One
Feel
Like
Liked
Felt
Opposite
Were
Where
Story
Really
Creative Writing
Each
I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able to write about balance, because I think there's something I want to try to get at. I'm trying to get at something about the experience of growing up or about families.
Aimee Bender
Balance
Experience
Writing
Try
Think
Able
About
Something
Myopic
Write
Because
Doing
Up
Families
Get
Trying
Any
Want
Interested
Little
Act
Growing
Growing Up
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
Aimee Bender
Love
Time
People
Kind
Fraught
Horrible
About
Adolescence
Write
Exciting
Obsessed
I write on a very strict 2-hour-a-day schedule, and I really respond to structure and invented rules. So even if I'm finding out good information on a character, I will stop when I'm set to stop.
Aimee Bender
Good
Character
Strict
Will
Rules
Respond
Out
Finding
Invented
Structure
Schedule
Write
Very
Stop
Information
Really
Even
Set
I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.
Aja Naomi King
Think
Direct
Write
Artist
Want
Produce
Inhabit
Means
Fully
I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
Al Goldstein
Myself
Men
Prisoner
Sexuality
About
Write
Like
Although
Am
Than
Being
Younger
I'm touched by Jon Hendricks. I want some of my music to reflect that. And when I write, you're going to hear it.
Al Jarreau
Music
You
Reflect
Some
Touched
Write
Jon
Hear
Going
Want
It's joyful in that there's another point of view on all things, you know, not just mine. That's why I like to write and collaborate with people. There's another point of view, and when those two things come together, and people work at it really hard, they get something that is the whole is more than the sum of - is that how you say that?
Al Jarreau
Work
You
Together
People
Sum
Collaborate
Mine
Say
Those
All Things
Something
More
Point
Point Of View
Write
Come
Like
Joyful
Know
Another
How
Than
Get
Just
Really
View
Hard
Whole
Why
Things
Two
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