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You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else's umbrella. If you're building your own legacy, it can't be under an umbrella.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.