Quotes About Passion

Songwriting has always been close to me.

I do feel pressure internally and externally to put out music, but that excites me because I love songwriting, and this brings me back to why I got in music in the first place, so I'm excited about that.

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

Songwriting is a big deal to me.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

I always was songwriting in high school, writing songs while I was supposed to be listening to the teacher.

Songwriting is what I do, and there could be worse burdens to carry.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be either a pianist or a classical singer, and when I discovered songwriting, it was like a new portal had been opened.

I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper.

This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought people wanted to hear and started writing things that moved us, that's when people started paying attention.

As a creative individual, I really go out of my way to avoid the corporate scene in terms of songwriting. If the first question is how much money is it going to make, I'm going to be in trouble anyway.

Songwriting isn't a choice. You're either called upon to bear the burden, or you're not. It's not all fun and games.

I started quite late. I only discovered that I could write a song when I was, like, 17... some musicians, they're starting out, writing songs when they're, like, 12, 13. I never thought I would go into songwriting when I was that young.

I want to become one of the songwriting greats. That's my number one goal.

Songwriting itself, I don't think you can really teach that.

I take songwriting very seriously and I wouldn't want anything I do to be construed as frivolous or mundane.

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing. So I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

I really love being an artist, but I make my money from songwriting.

I learned classical guitar as a kid at about 7 or 8 years old. When I was about 14, I started dabbling in songwriting. That's when I got into the folky singer-songwriter style.

I think that's always the hope - I mean, I can't speak for others, but I think other artists, no matter what type of medium they are using - whether it be from painting to acting to dancing, songwriting, or anything like that - I believe the desire is to get to the truth, and I think it's really hard to tell the truth.

Songwriting really anchored me.

My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.

I'm talented in other places, not only in songwriting, but music is always going to be the backdrop to whatever happens in life.

It's amazing to me that songwriting is an actual job.