Kevin Morby Quotes

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

I really want people to know I'm a songwriter.

I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a room with a guitar and make up songs! It is the greatest job in the world. I wrote three or four songs a day. That's what I lived for.

To me, I don't care if I co-write or if I write alone. If it's a great song and it makes it to the record, then that's what is supposed to come, you know what I mean.

Working with Tesco has been such an interesting avenue to go down that I'm keen to find other avenues to release music.

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

We write constantly. It's nice to have more to pick from and we pitch songs to other artists, so it's not always songs for us.

I put out tapes, but I always kept saying, 'Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?' I was like, 'I'd rather make just an album because I have a vision; I know how I want to do my records.' I always felt like an artist as well.

As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

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

Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out of life and turn it into an idea or a melody or a song and find the best writers you can to write with that fit you and know what you want to do.

Having Dierks Bentley on a song is one of the coolest things I've ever gotten to experience. For one, him agreeing to do a song with me but two, getting to share that moment in the studio.

I want to write just as much as Kanye may have for whomever Kanye has written for.

I thought I was just going to be a songwriter for other people! And now I get to put out my own music, which is amazing.

As a working musician, your first instinct is to try and do your job. It wasn't always my aspiration to sing; I just wanted to be a great working musician. But then Flying Lotus suggested I try, and nothing has ever been the same since.

My primary goal is to be a solo artist releasing original music.

I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.

I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.

One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out.

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be as an artist - I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.