Quotes About Dedication

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.

My aspirations aren't to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs.

I'm a songwriter first.

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.

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

If I had to drop everything and just be a songwriter, I would be OK with that because that's the real joy.

Rap ain't out there for everybody; everybody can't be a rapper. Everybody can't be a singer; anybody can't just be a songwriter, but it may - there's some profession out there you can be in.

Obviously I'm not the best singer; obviously I'm not the best piano player or the best songwriter, but I'm doing my best on all of 'em. Once you have all those things in place, then I think everything falls the way it should.

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.

I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a room with a guitar and make up songs! It is the greatest job in the world. I wrote three or four songs a day. That's what I lived for.

I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.

I really want people to know I'm a songwriter.

If you want to be a songwriter, you've got to obsess over it.

I always wanted to be a songwriter, and it took a while.

People started recording my songs. Later, I was offered songwriter contracts. And then, finally, I could take the time to work on my own project. I worked hard for this all by myself.

I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.

The way I look at it, I'm a songwriter that just happens to play guitar.

I have no such ambition of becoming an actor. I want to grow as a musician, singer and songwriter.

At the end of the day, I'm a songwriter.

I want to keep growing as a musician. I want to keep making records. I want to keep improving as a songwriter. That's what it's all about - to learn, you know?

I'm a songwriter, my love of music has never left me and I literally don't seem to be able to stop writing songs, they keep coming.

I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day. So it's just about finding time, scheduling, getting in and cutting the records. I make it happen and that's the name of the game. It's no excuses - you gotta figure it out.

We pride ourselves on being great songwriters.