Quotes About Artistry

I am always happy to use my song and dance training.

My idea of my music is constantly changing so I feel like how other people react to my old songs just ends up putting more pressure on myself from my own perspective.

It's not enough to play the old songs; that feels like being your own covers band or something. It's a big release to do new stuff.

I've always said there aren't great composers- there are great songs.

A lot of songs I'm kind of singing and rapping.

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

Love songs just kind of come out very naturally, me being a very romantic person.

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

My head is full of songs I'm writing now, and things I am thinking now. I'm not very good at drawing on things that have happened, things I think might happen, or things I want to happen. I'm very much in right now.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

The people in my songs are all me.

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B.

'Drip or Drown 2' is more me, more songs. I enhanced it more, even with the cover itself.

I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.

It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.

I don't really like to talk about what my songs are about.

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

Some day I'm gonna be gone and people will be listening to my songs and conjuring me up. In order for that to happen, you gotta put something of yourself in it.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

It's nice to play new songs, but it's nerve-wracking.

My friends started making music, and then I started making covers because I was like, 'I don't have anything to write, but I like music.' So I would just cover Frank Ocean songs.

All the songs are good, but 'Press Your Number' was fixed to be my favorite song from the beginning.