Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
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.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Writing music is just something that I was born to do.
I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.