Ashton Shepherd Quotes

The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

Once it's out there in the universe, it's serving its purpose, and I'm proud to have other folks hear the music that I was a part of making.

There's nothing like that feeling of having just written a song that you know is 'the song,' and you know it's really great, and you can't wait to share it with people; you can't wait to record it.

I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else.

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.

I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.