You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.
If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.
The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop.
When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me, so it's hard to break away and just be a songwriter.
I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.
You just wake up and make music.
I was born a singer. I need to do that.
If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous.