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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.

The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

When you're writing a song, you have to know two things. You have to know who you are, and you have to think about other people.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and you're always writing. Even in your sleep, you're always thinking about it in the back of your mind. The true writing - when you're officially writing - that's just when its front of mind, but its always there. You're always listening for a hook.

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

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

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.