Quotes About Songwriting

If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

I was a coat-checker at Orso, and all these wonderful actors were coming in, and it was exciting to me, so I started going to classes, and my excuse was, 'I'll be a better songwriter if I can understand how to play a character.' Well, that couldn't be farther from the truth.

I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a room with a guitar and make up songs! It is the greatest job in the world. I wrote three or four songs a day. That's what I lived for.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.

I just wanted to be a songwriter. I did really not like the sound of my own voice.

I wanted to become a better songwriter, so it seemed like a no-brainer to move to Nashville, where some of the best writers in the world live.

As a songwriter, it can be a kiss of death for you to fall in love.

I always like to write the songs, and they get turned loose into the world, and who knows what happens to them. That's the joy of being a songwriter. You get to hear what other people do, interpretation-wise.

As a songwriter, we're looking for a good story, and we're always looking to push the limits.

I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself.

I've learned and grown as a songwriter.

I've always been a songwriter.

As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.

I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.

As a songwriter, I was always mining my own depths, which were filled with confusion and darkness.

There's two things that are tough when you're trying to be a songwriter: Number one is, how do I write a great song? The second thing is, how do I write a great song that's right for me?

I am a songwriter and producer, and though you have to be personal in everything you do, you always having to look at things from another's perspective.

Being a songwriter, you are accepting that this isn't about you. If you do want it to be about you, you're going to be really miserable.

That's the challenge as a songwriter is that there's only so many things people want to hear about, and relationships is just one of those things.

Put me in a room with a songwriter, and I just clam up. I get shy.

With pretty much everything that I've done, in terms of going from being a songwriter and producer for other artists to doing my stuff, all the songs that I've kept to myself have always been me writing about my life.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.