Quotes About Perspective

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

I see my songs and shows almost like a mosaic - part of a bigger picture.

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em.

I think, after 'Let Her Go,' I wanted to show people that I don't just write really sad love songs about my ex-girlfriend: that there's another side to Passenger as well that's a bit more up-tempo and more inclined to social commentary.

It's not about being happy 100 percent all the time, cause that's just life. I make sad songs, too, that really only make the happy songs better.

I grew up in the entertainment industry, and I think being around that gave me a different perspective on people and what's real and what's fake. I think about that a lot, and it comes out in my songs.

If critics find my songs monotonous, then I also find their opinion monotonous.

I love rethinking and reimagining songs.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.

People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'

Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.

For me as a songwriter, I love when other people cover my songs.

I'd had three husbands by 23. The second was a songwriter who couldn't handle the fact the little lady was doing better than him.

I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

As a songwriter, it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.

I'm an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to.

I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.

I always like to write the songs, and they get turned loose into the world, and who knows what happens to them. That's the joy of being a songwriter. You get to hear what other people do, interpretation-wise.

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.