Quotes About Songwriting

For me as a songwriter, I love when other people cover my songs.

It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn.

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

I'd had three husbands by 23. The second was a songwriter who couldn't handle the fact the little lady was doing better than him.

I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous.

It's cool that our stuff is received as it is, and our stuff is fairly long. But from a songwriter's purview as well as an exercise, I'm trying to write shorter material and find ways to condense ideas.

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.

I'm not a natural songwriter.

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.

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.

I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.

Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

Someone like Katy Perry - I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of her songs - like, 'Firework' is a song that I think I could write.

What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because it isn't just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.

Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably, like a songwriter for other people, or a novel writer. I write a lot, and I read a lot. I like reading fiction.

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.

Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical family. My dad got to sing songs by some of the greatest writers of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.

I don't think I'm a good-enough songwriter.