Taylor Goldsmith Quotes

I tend to explain my songs.

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

Any time you write a song, you kind of know what you want from it. You know what you're getting from it.

I have never composed a song keeping in mind that I should touch any social issues.

Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story.

The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality and their live performances I think would be great, and I have a feeling that there are stories behind each one of them.

I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.

I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of everything.

I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical.

When I hear a beat that makes me want to tell a story, then that's what I'm going to say.