Quote

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.

Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.