LP Quotes

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

I didn't know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people. I always thought that George Strait was singing a song, he made it up, and that was the end of it. But the instant I found that out, that that could be a job, I thought, 'That's the job for me. I gotta figure out how to do that.'

I've never gone to a singer with a song and said 'why don't you try this?' or tried to get a record like that. My head just wasn't there.

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

I don't write songs.

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as writing hit songs that you pitch to the national artist, I just don't write that way.

I always wanted to be a songwriter, and it took a while.

Songwriting has always been close to me.