Johnny Cash Quotes

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I love writing songs.

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

I'm a beat hoarder. I'll record five songs in a year and I still hoard beats.

When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar.

Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody.

I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.

There are still songs that I'm writing. I like to write. I like to take a long time to do my songs, not even the actual writing process, but conceptualizing, getting into the songs. That's why I stopped doing mixtapes.

Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.

In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going (vocalizing) like the chords on "I Walk The Line." And I always wanted to write a love song using that theme, that tune.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.

Back in Korea, I'm always in the studio with YG people. I'd be given a song, and I'd cut it.

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

I love writing songs for other people, and it's an honor when someone records your songs.

If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.

It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.

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