Quotes About Music

Songwriting is my gift from God.

Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

Growing up, I became a huge fan of Freddie Mercury, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins. That's where I really started developing my songwriting skills on a personal level.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

The only way to be original in your songwriting is to write about your own experiences, and I think that's what we try to do as a band.

I've always used songs and music and songwriting as a way to sort of let feelings go.

As far as songwriting, I'm not sure if they wrote all of their own stuff, but I love the Dixie Chicks.

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and there were a lot of choices - writing songs was king.

The foundation for me is the songwriting and the craft. All I want is for people to hear the music. Just put me in front of an audience.

We're always writing music no matter what. And we're not always acting - we have months off. But we never take a break from songwriting.

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.

The new generation of musicians is writing music on computers, and this is very sad because the quality of songwriting has crashed and dived. There are some songs out that are made by only one guy who works a computer and doesn't play any instruments.

No I.D. is like an alchemist and he'll only give you so much at one time. It's for the best at the end of the day, cause through the process of working with No I.D. I was able to soak up his perspective for songwriting and production and keeping music alive.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

I think my favorite thing is songwriting.

Songwriting is such a mysterious thing. Its a magical channel thats a gift to you and you cant really conjure it up when you want it to. It could pop up when youre driving or out having dinner.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

'Mr. Misunderstood' - that whole album is incredible and just has amazing songwriting.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.