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But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.
My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.
Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.
I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!
My passion is more in songwriting than ... in being a star.
You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.
But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.
Songwriting itself, I don't think you can really teach that.
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.
My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.
My voice is very country, and my songwriting is very country.
If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.
There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.
I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.
Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about.
The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.
I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.
Songwriting was a gift that came to me when I needed it the most.
I always found very strong images for my songwriting in New York.
I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.
People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.
Songwriting is what I am trying to stay good at and get better at.
To have John Mellencamp compliment my songwriting? That was unreal.
Songwriting is what I do, and there could be worse burdens to carry.
Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].
I really love being an artist, but I make my money from songwriting.
My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff.
Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.
Songwriting is a muscle. The more you do it, the better you get at it.
I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.
Songwriting is my craft now, and it's more than something I just enjoy.
Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.
Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to.
That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.
Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.
I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.
I want to become one of the songwriting greats. That's my number one goal.
I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.
Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.
Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
I'm grateful to songwriting and recovery to bringing me to a place of peace.
Songwriting is my true passion and that's what the BMI awards are all about.
I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.
Honestly, I've never thought of myself as a mover and shaker of songwriting.
I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper.
My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.
Songwriting was my own journey. I never fit in with structure in songwriting.