As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.
I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.
Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.