I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them. Read Summary
In my off-time, I do record. Once in a while, I'll just go into the studio if there's a really good song that I have in my head and want to do. I think, as artists, you're constantly in creative motion. If I stopped writing songs, then that's a part of me that would stop in my life, and I need constant motion. Read Summary
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that. Read Summary
You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs. Read Summary
In order to actually have a touchscreen in front of me and somehow still be connected to nature, I needed to be able to incorporate natural elements into the song structures. Because that's always been my song-writing accompaniment: nature. Read Summary
If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you're sort of writing the same song over and over again. Read Summary
People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better! Read Summary
I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is - I don't even want to say that it's mine, because it's yours. Read Summary
You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone. Read Summary
When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole. Read Summary
I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about. Read Summary
I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired. Read Summary