Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid.
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling.
What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
Making sounds that literally no one has ever heard before because the software and the technology's never been there, and pairing that with great songwriting, then that's what's exciting for me. That's what I wanna do.
Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.
Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.