Quotes About Music

I love Frank Ocean. For me, 'Channel Orange' is the best LP ever. I love his voice, the songwriting, everything.

It all comes together. It's - that's the way it's always worked for me with songwriting.

My dad helped me understand songwriting because of him playing Babyface a lot. I don't even know if my dad realized that him just being him, him just living his life, loving what he loved, poured more into me than anybody ever would know.

In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.

Songwriting was a gift that came to me when I needed it the most.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

The thing about me is that I'm very fortunate to have had the opportunities with Avenged Sevenfold in songwriting. I really think it's helped to bolster my guitar playing as well.

Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.

Some of my best songwriting choices started as mistakes or learning curves, when I accidentally hit a 'wrong' key or something. I try not to lose that the more I learn the how's and why's of piano.

People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.

Songwriting has always been close to me.

I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville - sometimes it comes to me that way.

That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

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 love pop music. I listen to it; I think you can hear it in my songwriting and my album. I'd definitely say it's country-pop music, but it's country first.

I grew up listening to a lot of classic country, and I think that shows in my songwriting.

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

Songwriting is a big deal to me.

I think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't.

It's hard not to go back and look at my songwriting catalog and go, 'Look, there are 600 to 700 songs here.'

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

My dad gave me the 'Introducing Dionne Warwick' album when I was, like, 14. It was the first time I'd heard Burt Bacharach's songwriting and her voice, and it rocked my world. She's such a great singer and communicator. It really helped me shape my own style.

Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose.

My songwriting is personal in the hope that listeners will know that I relate to them.