Songwriting Quotes

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies.

And I look forward to the time when I can become more indulgent with my songwriting. But this band is a family, and it's a process that we have to grow with together.

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.

All is fair in love and songwriting.