Common Quotes

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.

I feel really relevant and creative, and I don't think I would've made an album if I didn't feel relevant. I wouldn't have said a word.

More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

'It's Everyday Bro' started with me talking about the things I do on a day-to-day basis. From there, the creativity was unleashed, and the song was the result.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.

I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.