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I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.
My daughter is far more talented than me in the songwriting department - far more.
I couldn't say there is a formula to songwriting. Each time is a unique experience.
The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.
The personality and songwriting of Holy Ghost! trumps the originality card any day.
At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.
Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.
I've always used songs and music and songwriting as a way to sort of let feelings go.
I love watching movies, and I'm very inspired by movies when it comes to songwriting!
I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.
I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.
I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.
Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates.
I've never been one to indulge in out and out depression when it comes to songwriting.
My songwriting is personal in the hope that listeners will know that I relate to them.
'Mr. Misunderstood' - that whole album is incredible and just has amazing songwriting.
I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.
[Songwriting is] something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice.
One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.
Songwriting has really allowed me to enjoy life and look at it from an objective place.
Hearing about a visual artist's approach can change the way you think about songwriting.
It all comes together. It's - that's the way it's always worked for me with songwriting.
That's what's amazing about songwriting: you can write a story that everyone connects to.
Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.
Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.
Being inducted into the songwriting hall of fame by Clive Davis, that was pretty memorable.
A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.
Sometimes songwriting can turn into a gossip column, and I try to avoid that as much as I can.
I've always been insecure about my singing. That's why I've focused so much on my songwriting.
I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.
From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It's been quite an evolution.
I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
No one can attack you when you're songwriting; it's you and a song, which is a great place to be.
I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
The 'Sodajerker' podcast is the work of Liverpool songwriting duo Simon Barber and Brian O'Connor.
I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.
Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.
I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.
The one thing about songwriting that's been consistent is that I do it for the love of a good melody.
My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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.
As far as songwriting, I'm not sure if they wrote all of their own stuff, but I love the Dixie Chicks.
I'm such an emotional person that when it comes to songwriting, I can click into whatever zone I need.
Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens!