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The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.
I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.
No one can attack you when you're songwriting; it's you and a song, which is a great place to be.
I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
The 'Sodajerker' podcast is the work of Liverpool songwriting duo Simon Barber and Brian O'Connor.
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.
When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.
The one thing about songwriting that's been consistent is that I do it for the love of a good melody.
I think I'm better at songwriting now, and it does come easier. I have faith in my initial instincts.
My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.
I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens!
Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.
It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.
I'm such an emotional person that when it comes to songwriting, I can click into whatever zone I need.
As far as songwriting, I'm not sure if they wrote all of their own stuff, but I love the Dixie Chicks.
I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville - sometimes it comes to me that way.
Songwriting is a difficult thing, but it's not so bad when you remove the barriers you put up yourself.
I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars.
It's easy for me to cry. I'm just emotionally tuned in to stuff. It probably helps with my songwriting.
I've always listened to a wide variety of music, and I know that shows through my songwriting evolution.
Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
Some people see Jermaine Dupri as a producer, and they don't really know what the songwriting skills are.
In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.
Making vocal hooks is my favorite thing to do. That's what I love about songwriting - making catchy stuff.
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
Songwriting is such a personal thing and it's hard to be in a room with somebody you don't know and trust.
I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.
I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.
I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.
I always was songwriting in high school, writing songs while I was supposed to be listening to the teacher.
The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.
It's hard not to go back and look at my songwriting catalog and go, 'Look, there are 600 to 700 songs here.'
I take songwriting very seriously and I wouldn't want anything I do to be construed as frivolous or mundane.
My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.
As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.
It was actually working with Kendrick Lamar that pushed me further into the act of songwriting, specifically.
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
I think for me to be involved in a festival, there has to be a strong element of songwriting and musicianship.
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.