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I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.

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.

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

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.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

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.