Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.
Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.
Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.
I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.