Quotes About Artistry

It's cool that our stuff is received as it is, and our stuff is fairly long. But from a songwriter's purview as well as an exercise, I'm trying to write shorter material and find ways to condense ideas.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

I'm not a natural songwriter.

When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me, so it's hard to break away and just be a songwriter.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.

I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.

What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.

I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me.

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.

I don't think I'm a good-enough songwriter.

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

I try to do collaborations with as many artists as possible. It's really excellent and fun to actually work with another songwriter.

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.

Meeting my wife changed everything; it really, in the long run, made me a much better artist, a much better songwriter, a much better maker of albums.

Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

I have very strong feelings about a lot of things. I am sometimes reluctant to come straight to the forefront with it. You know, first and foremost, I'm a musician. I'm a songwriter.

I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.

I am neither such a great songwriter or such a great singer that the world must hear my album. There's just no point to make.

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.