How do you start off a song?

[musicthom]

What makes you start writing a song? Do you start with the lyrics or the music....or both?

My way of doing it has changes over the years, i only ever wrote lyrics before. over the last 3 years since i picked up guitar has it changed

i sit with the guitar and i generaly have some riff to start working with and i play and hum along till i have a melody, most of the time the style, mood, tempo of the sons suggests my lyric

i don't think there is any hard fast rules when it comes to writing but what makes me better most of all is when a became open minded to others thought on my work

some of the simple of suggestions can make such a diffirence