I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.
One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.
My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.
I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.
My goals for myself have changed as my career has evolved and as I've grown as a writer.
I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.
I've done a couple of songs which are not up to the mark. So, mentally, I've set a goal that I should be more dynamic and try and push myself as much as I can.