I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.
One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.
The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.
I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.
Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.