Quotes About Empathy

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

My independent songs are actually about me, so if you really want to know me, listen to my songs and know what I have been through in my life.

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

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.

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

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.

Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

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.

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

Ultimately, I don't think you can be a character who's completely alien or divorced from your own personality. It's probably true of every writer - it's probably true of every filmmaker, every songwriter - that, ultimately, every character you create is a facet of yourself.

My favorite songwriters are all solo artists.

Fundamentally, our job as songwriters is to sit down and listen.

A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.

As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.

I know exactly what songwriters are going through.

Songwriting has really allowed me to enjoy life and look at it from an objective place.

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

My songwriting is personal in the hope that listeners will know that I relate to them.

Songwriting is such a personal thing and it's hard to be in a room with somebody you don't know and trust.

The purpose of my songwriting is to put the things I have been through in a song in order to help others who may be in a similar situation.

Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom. I enjoy a lot of mystery.