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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.
I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.
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.
Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.
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'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.
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.
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 think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't.
I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.
Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.
Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.
Songwriting I think, or any art form, the inspiration comes from your personal life or it can be from politics or region you live in.
I'm treating country music like it's a sport. I'm looking at where my competition is and realized I needed to work on my songwriting.
I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.
I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
Coming out of 'Wretched and Divine,' I was still wanting to explore the more theatrical elements of songwriting. That led to Andy Black.
We're always writing music no matter what. And we're not always acting - we have months off. But we never take a break from songwriting.
To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.
I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.
I got a sociology degree and then had an opportunity to go to graduate school. But I said no, because I wanted to give songwriting a shot.
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.
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.
I wrote 'No Words' and 'Mull of Kintyre' with help from Paul. He was always like a big brother to me and a strong influence on my songwriting.
Sonic Youth has always been the vehicle for my writing, you know, because it's a collective songwriting entity: we write our songs as a group.
In my opinion, that's one of the hardest things to do in songwriting: crafting a song that speaks to you but, at its core, is a simple concept.
I like songs in all different genres and types. My production and songwriting is everything from pop rock to hip-hop and everything in between.
I sing and play guitar, but songwriting is how I pay my rent. And so I didn't really need a lot of publicity to get people to record the songs.
I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.
Bike riding is great for your thinking. I can't say I've written an entire tune while cycling, but riding has definitely inspired songwriting ideas.
People were like, 'he's collaborating with Taylor Swift' and I was like, 'I am?' I think she's wonderful. Her songwriting has inspired me for years.
Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music.
I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that's what's big in Nashville - the collaborative part of songwriting.
I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.
When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.
It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have no other interest other than music. At all.
My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen. His songwriting skills, I cannot even approach, but his showmanship, I learned it from videos.
George felt the group wasn't giving him the freedom he needed to develop his songwriting. But I have to admit the end came a little sooner than I expected.
All of my acoustic playing came from my songwriting. All of the chords I've learned and all of the voicings I play them in are a direct result of composing.
When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.
When I was younger, I always wanted to be either a pianist or a classical singer, and when I discovered songwriting, it was like a new portal had been opened.
I want to see the guitar in a non-linear sense that encompasses tones, arrangements, songwriting, audio production, and everything else - you have to do it all.
The Raspberries was formed as kind of a reaction to prog rock, which we didn't like. 'Let's bring some songwriting and harmonies back to music' And we did that.
It would be amazing to write a song that could be sung 100 years from now by a teenage girl and still be relevant to her - that's a dream of songwriting, maybe.