I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
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One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.
I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.
I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.
I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.
When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.
I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.