I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and there were a lot of choices - writing songs was king.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
I am really heavy into songwriting.
I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical family. My dad got to sing songs by some of the greatest writers of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.
The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.
I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.
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.
Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
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