My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
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.
Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.
My passion is more in songwriting than ... in being a star.
I think I'm more prolific in the songwriting.
Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.
Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.
'Insatiable', the album, was more of a project, really... it was more like a songwriting excursion and an exclusive deal that hadn't really ever been done that often before... me being like, 'ooh I'm an entrepreneur', rather than 'this is my singing career'.
I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're dependent on the music.
I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.
It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.
Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.
I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively-and there were a lot of choices-writing songs was king.
I couldn't say there is a formula to songwriting. Each time is a unique experience.
I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it.
Songwriting is my main thing. I know that I'll do that for the rest of my life.
I usually eat breakfast twice. I'm usually up at 3 a.m. - do my spiritual work, my affirmations, a little bit of songwriting, get my daily work in order, and by that time I've worked up a bigger appetite.
It's unfashionable to admit, but playing music makes us happy and makes us smile.
Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to.
Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.
I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve. I didn't take it all that seriously when I started. It was a little bit of a stigma to being a songwriter or a folkie back then. I did a lot of send-ups of sensitive singer-songwriter stuff when I was starting out, which limited my development as a songwriter in a way. I wasn't really fully given license to explore that until the mid-90s. I'm still working on it; I'm a little bit of a late bloomer.
Live we're a lot louder and noisier on the album. I think for the album we took a lot of time for the songwriting and we wanted to make good pop music, and I think there's plus and minuses to doing pop music and noise.
Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.
