When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.
When you first start singing something after you've written it, it has this sort of sparkle to it. And if you capture that, that's luck.
Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.
Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.
The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.
My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.
Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'