Poo Bear Quotes

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

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.

The whole industry evolves around a great song.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

I know Ed Sheeran writes with a bunch of fantastic writers, but for me, it's quite difficult to be that honest with other people.

Working as a producer, an arranger, and, in some cases, as a writer for some other people gave me a super different perspective.

I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

I don't think a lot of people know what a real artist I am. I don't think they know I write my own music.

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

I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

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 don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people.

My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

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 spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.

I never liked making albums.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I'm so excited because I always secretly wanted to be an artist.