Luckily, there's enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them.
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.
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten
I clearly remember writing songs [when I was young] and the power that it gave me of feeling like somebody. My whole life changed when I wrote those songs, even before anyone ever heard them. It wasn't a commercial thing.
Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
People tell me all the time that my songs help them express things to loved ones that they may not be able to say themselves.
All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.
We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the "Girlfriend in a Coma" is, like, really funny.
I think some songs are better on vinyl.
I've been cataloguing samples for years, I have this massive library. Songs come out everyday so it's never ending.
I started writing songs at age 15.
I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.
I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.
I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.
I either write songs on guitar, or. . . I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.
As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously always doing. I think over time my songs have become more and more restrained.
I'm writing songs that connect to millions of people. And that happens for a reason. I don't really worry too much about people who aren't into it because that's the beauty of music. It's subjective. If every single person in the world loved our music, then that'd be weird.
