Tiffany Darwish Quotes

I'm a musician, I always was a musician, and now I've got a song on the radio, so I'm definitely a musician.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

If somebody sings a song that I wrote, I feel like it's a nice point of validation for the song, because it shows that the song is able to stand on its own. I like that.

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

It's one thing to be recognized by your peers over the course of your career, but the Grammy is something else altogether. You have the Recording Academy, along with a huge cross-section of producers, writers, engineers and musicians from all different musical genres and backgrounds who are making a decision. It's an amazing feeling.

I'm like this ghost - you look around, and all you see is the artist. But if you look at the credits, it's still Poo Bear.

I'm a pretty successful songwriter and known in some circles, but I didn't think the story of my career was of any real entertainment value.

So when you're sat there and you're looking at a platinum disc on your wall, for a song you wrote on your own, it's like this is getting crazy, man. It's all crazy.

I guess if I'd have more of a producer attitude, maybe I'd sell more records. But I'm basically a songwriter.

I am a co-writer of 'Survivor,' so there's publishing that I'll receive for some of the records.

Some people are songwriters, and some people are just recording artists. I'm both. I write and record.

I don't really generate material specifically for the Kingsway Music Library. It's just a product of the way I work.

I compose for very limited people in Bollywood, as I am not a playback artist. I compose my songs and sing them.

The only way to have longevity is to have good songs.

I was 16 when I recorded 'Flashlight.' I produced it, made the beat, wrote it, recorded it.

It was immaterial to me that Elvis didn't write his own songs. Those were very different days, and he selected whatever suited him best from material supplied by publishing houses and teams of writers - all of whom were extremely conscious of his style of delivery.

I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.

For years, I wrote songs to try to get cuts or try to have hits or try to appease a label or to be famous. I was learning a lot of valuable tools about structure and how to articulate. I was getting really good at that.

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing. So I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

Moreover, if a song is a hit, film makers come to us with requests to score similar tracks. In the process, commercial songs sometimes sound repetitive.

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

My personal favorite person we worked with in the U.K. is Cathy Dennis, who is absolutely incredible. She wrote 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' for Kylie Minogue and 'Toxic' for Britney Spears, so she's one of my absolute favorite pop writers.

Most of our artists are songwriters, so the songs are still central to all this. If you don't have great songs, it doesn't matter the marketing or how many times you are on TV; you can only polish it so much.

I want to literally quit drag and go live in the woods somewhere and write music for my favorite female singers, like Miley Cyrus or Kacey Musgraves. I would love to be able to write music for them and hear these women I admire sing my songs. That would be like doing drag without having to get into drag myself.