Songwriter Quotes

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

I don’t want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know?

Find something you love and go for it with all your heart. No excuses, no plan B. Never settle for anything less than you know you can do.
It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.

An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.

Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell.

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.

Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.

No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead.

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

So many people will tell you ”no”, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that you just smile and tell them ”watch me”. Learn to take rejection as motivation to prove people wrong. Be unstoppable. Refuse to give up, no matter what. It’s the best skill you can ever learn.

... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”
and I will say
“watch me”
for I never did this to fit in
or stand out
but to live.

When you forget about the how, go back to the why.

Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.

I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.

It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go!

Time flows smoother when you are with people you love.