For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.
I look for songs that the listener, when they hear it, they believe what I'm singing about, that I know what I'm singing about. That's my whole deal. I try to choose songs that a male or a female can perform and relate to.
I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.
I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
Because my musical background is so diverse, it lends me to have very much my own style and it helps me to relate to the music as I'm going to play it. I just write. And if it comes out country, it's a country song. The funny thing is, I write all across the board. I just write what hits me at the time.
I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
I'd say most of my songs I write from personal experience. When I feel like I don't have any inspiration in my personal life, I think about others that are close to me and maybe what they're going through or even just people I've come across, acquaintances.
I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
When you're writing a song, you have to know two things. You have to know who you are, and you have to think about other people.