songwriting

I__e always thought the best songs come though us not from us_. They gave me life, they gave me an identity and I gave them my tears, my heart, and my truth.

I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps

Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies

I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me.

Stretched and skewedTap of the 8-ball and the cueScratches fall throughThey are the scars of you

The extent of creativity to which I admire in an individual is his ability to be richly creative while still, in a way, telling the truth. It is the fool who creates only his own lies, and the bore who simply repeats what he is told.

Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment.

Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it and shape it so that it could be contained in the tight-fitting songs. Then he had to dress it up so that it sounded more like itself.

I'm a peasantI'm the muzhikA pest you're destined to play the musicAnd yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'mIndebted to rest respecting it truly

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.

I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing.

I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.