Quotes About Dedication

I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of good songwriters, and I try to actually work on the craft of writing a song rather than just leaving it up to inspiration.

We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.

I've often said to young songwriters when they want to write with me, 'Let's take a stab at ten songs, and we might get one really good one.'

There's just a certain amount of grandeur and total squalor we exist in as songwriters because it's a crazy job for crazy people.

I'm basically a songwriter, man. Songwriters are down in the fine print, you know? And I really enjoy that.

Songwriting is a muscle. The more you do it, the better you get at it.

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

Every riff had to be perfect and heavy, collectively what we wanted it to be. If there was one person in the room who went, 'Heh, I don't think it is there yet, guys,' we'd scrap the whole song. I think that took a little bit of songwriting maturity for us.

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.

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

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

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

When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.

I am really heavy into songwriting.

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

Songwriting is a big deal to me.

Songwriting is what I do, and there could be worse burdens to carry.

I've always wanted to sing and to be an entertainer. After high school, I moved from New Orleans to Los Angeles and started songwriting. But I didn't really get serious until then.

Songwriting isn't a choice. You're either called upon to bear the burden, or you're not. It's not all fun and games.

I want to become one of the songwriting greats. That's my number one goal.

I take songwriting very seriously and I wouldn't want anything I do to be construed as frivolous or mundane.

At the end of the day I'm not just sending beats in. I'm mixing the song. I'm recording the song. I'm engineering the song. I'm in the studio helping with the songwriting. I'm doing the whole beat - every single piece of it is me.

I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.

Songwriting really anchored me.