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When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.

I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else's umbrella. If you're building your own legacy, it can't be under an umbrella.