Gabby Barrett Quotes

I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that's what's big in Nashville - the collaborative part of songwriting.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

It's a total big difference between a person that got lyrics and a person that can make hit singles. I'm a person that can make some hit singles. I'm not in no booth trying to be a lyrical genius. I'm preparing to make me some singles, and as I develop as a man, then they'll respect my emcee skills.

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

I don't know if I want her to sing it with us, but I'm curious to what type of song Taylor Swift would write for us. I'm curious to see what kind of pen she would write for TLC. Or like an Adam Levine. Somebody like that. They're phenomenal writers.

Working with Babyface was legendary.

I've written for Rita Ora; I've written for Chiddy Bang - there's been a few.

Working with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis was crazy.

We've been having a great time writing for other artists in and amongst making our Bastille albums and mixtapes.

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

My first album after 'American Idol' I did with Desmond - we paid for it together, and we literally were together working on it every day for a year and half, just writing. We wrote in New York, Nashville, L.A., Sweden - we wrote with some other amazing songwriters like Diane Warren, too.

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

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Being in Weezer's just gotten so much more fun over the years. I love almost every part of my job. My very favorite part is working on new songs.

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

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.

I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.