Quotes About Collaboration

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

I'm not particularly good at anything. I'm not an incredible guitarist or piano player or songwriter. I think what I do is, when I notice someone is really good at something, I try to get that out of them.

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

As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.

My dream collaboration would be to work with Drake. Honestly, he's an amazing songwriter, and I feel like if we got the opportunity to do a song, it would be the most amazing thing to ever hit people's ears.

I'm not a mixer. That's not what I do. I'm a songwriter, a singer, and a guitar player. You might have some ideas here and there, but you let the mixer mix the song because, overall, you've gotta trust their instincts.

I am a songwriter and producer, and though you have to be personal in everything you do, you always having to look at things from another's perspective.

Being a songwriter, you are accepting that this isn't about you. If you do want it to be about you, you're going to be really miserable.

You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

Put me in a room with a songwriter, and I just clam up. I get shy.

All the best bands have to have more than just one strong songwriter.

I would love to work with Calvin Harris because I think he's a really good songwriter and producer and he does everything, which I like.

We made a decision very early on that George would be the main songwriter because it was very apparent to all of us that he was better at it.

One of my first songs I ever got a decent cut on was with a songwriter out of Xenomania, called 'All Fired Up' for the Saturdays.

I usually hung out with my songwriter friends at their places or mine.

I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out with.

When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing out, then record an album. Instead, I worked with people I knew would be good songwriters out of an idea how I thought it would sound like.

I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.

For 'Hey Monday,' there were songs that I co-wrote with songwriters or producers, but our last EP, the whole band did everything together. I've had a lot of experience with co-writes, which is basically what I'm doing now. I am writing things on my own, but I really believe co-writing makes you a better writer.

In the Troubadour days, it was all those songwriters that I hung around with all the time, so I could get songs and find out what was going on. So we all knew each other, and we just carried each other's word around.

Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.

We pride ourselves on being great songwriters.

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.