Quotes About Artistry

Songwriting is my craft now, and it's more than something I just enjoy.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things.

The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.

Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates.

I am really heavy into songwriting.

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.

That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things you'd want to say.

I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.

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

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

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

I'm just getting back into my songwriting groove. It's still pretty early. But I don't want to make 'Hero 2.' It's going to be different.

Fear just crushes creativity, and if I let fear into the studio and into the songwriting, I was going to let it kill the artist inside of me.

Pressure has always been more of a friend than a foe for me with songwriting.

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

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

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

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

I would like to work with Ed Sheeran at some point. I really admire his songwriting, and I just think he has a great voice and great artistry. Who else? On the producer side of things, definitely Diplo: that'd be awesome.

The thing is, I feel like it would defeat the purpose of being a musician if I let any kind of fear of failure affect my songwriting or making an album or whatever.

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.