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As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.

Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.