Quotes About Art

I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing what art is supposed to do, mixing it up with people.

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers.

Obviously we're pop songwriters.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.

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

One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.

Songwriting I think, or any art form, the inspiration comes from your personal life or it can be from politics or region you live in.

I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

I think my favorite thing is songwriting.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out - the more I started writing, the more there was honesty.

It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'.

I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.

I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over again. That's why they keep trying to get him a Nobel Prize for literature: because there is no Nobel Prize for songwriting.

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

No one can attack you when you're songwriting; it's you and a song, which is a great place to be.

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.

My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff.