No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.
I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.
We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.
Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.
I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.
I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.
I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.
Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.