Jewel Quotes

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

The first time I wrote a song, I couldn't really believe - 'Can you just do that? You're just allowed?' I never thought about songs on the radio and who wrote them.

My sister's job does not involve music, but she is an amazing singer and songwriter.

I'm a songwriter.

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films.

No, my son's a songwriter and he does that.

I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.

You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.

I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.

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.

I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

Music is my hustle.

Songwritng is what I do.

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that's my best attribute.

I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.