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My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere.
There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.
I love Frank Ocean. For me, 'Channel Orange' is the best LP ever. I love his voice, the songwriting, everything.
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.
Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.
I struggled with a lot of doubts around my songwriting and around what I was and what my purpose and mission were.
Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.
If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy. I wrote about everyday stuff.
Songwriting isn't a choice. You're either called upon to bear the burden, or you're not. It's not all fun and games.
It's such a weird process, songwriting, because you just have to feel it. There's no right or wrong melody or lyric.
That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
Nostalgia has always been a key player in my songwriting cause within that space I find a great deal of inspiration.
Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.
My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.
Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.
If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.
Every musician out there wants to be judged on the merit of their songwriting, the merit of their performing abilities.
After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.
A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!
Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
All of my surroundings influence my songwriting. It's autobiographical, although I leave enough space so it's relatable.
My brother and I are not rivals. We are shipmates and best friends and the greatest songwriting partnership in the world.
The songwriting process is different on every record because you're never coming from the same place when you're writing.
I've lived through a lot of dark environments one way or another while growing up and that has influenced my songwriting.
Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely forthcoming.
Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences.
You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.
All of our albums are actually pretty similar, it's just the production that's different. Our songwriting is always the same.
I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.
Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.
I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.
My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well.
Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.
I'm talented in other places, not only in songwriting, but music is always going to be the backdrop to whatever happens in life.
I've been hugely inspired by the songwriting of Lauryn Hill and Tracy Chapman - on their albums, they really tell it like it is.
I had to be honest in my songwriting for it to be where it is, and it's always scary wondering if anyone will connect with that.
I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.
I think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't.
For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.