Dan Hill Quotes

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.

New life situations equal out to new kinds of songs.

The way to write really good songs is to write about the things that happen in your life and where you are in the moment, and writing about stuff that happens in your 30s is not the sexiest song subject.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit down, and all these words that told a story would come out. There's one Bon Iver song called 'Blood Bank' that is more representative of an older lineage of songs, which I like and I sort of miss. But it just doesn't happen anymore for me.

I started writing songs at age 15.

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

I wrote my first song when I was 6 years old. It was actually called 'Six Years Old.'

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.

All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

The thing about me is that I'm very fortunate to have had the opportunities with Avenged Sevenfold in songwriting. I really think it's helped to bolster my guitar playing as well.

I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

Lyrically, I've always thought about albums as a record of a period of time.

I don't sit down to write a country song. I don't sit down to write a rap song. I just sit down to write a song, you know what I mean? And I try to make that song the best it can be.

When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs with titles like 'Unify' and 'You're Special.' And there's this song that reminds me of Meghan Trainor that I wrote, about a woman's body and not conforming, when I first started in music.

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.