Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.
You want to sell records, but if you want to call yourself an artist, your job is how you express yourself.
The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop.
When I'm not singing, I'm a lot of persons: I'm a producer. I'm a badminton player. I'm a writer. I'm a movie freak. I'm a documentary maker.
You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.
I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.
Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.
I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.
I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around.