Quotes About Artistry

Most of the best songwriters that ever lived couldn't read music.

Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and work.

As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.

I just see us as songwriters.

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.

Honestly, I've never thought of myself as a mover and shaker of songwriting.

There's a big gaping hole in the EDM space for songwriting. It's one thing to learn how to be a great sound designer and become big just on sound design. Especially if you're in the dubstep category, it's like, how much fatter and more interesting can you make those drops.

I'm always trying to find myself little holes where I can do some songwriting.

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.

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.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

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.

For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.

When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

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

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

My voice is very country, and my songwriting is very country.