Songwriter Quotes
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My main theme as a songwriter seems to be a feeling of homelessness, of being in motion. The feeling of being somehow unmoored, a radical internal freedom that is very painful and also joyful.
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I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.
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I'm always shocked by that! I'm not the singer, I'm the songwriter who sings.
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I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.
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I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but also know that, on the other hand, I am a songwriter and I am a craftsman, and I do have a craft and a technique and a method. So I need to balance the technique and the method.
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I thought as a kid, "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.
