I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.
I feel a duty to write because I can write songs.
I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.
Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.
I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
With the 'iCarly' soundtrack, I didn't get to write any of the songs. I just picked songs that meant a lot to me that I really liked.
We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.
I'd rather let the song live and, as I get older, I'm less absorbed with the clothing. The older I get, I just wanna write good songs.
I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.
I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.
When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.
Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people...
If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written for the page, your eye can skip up and down. You can see the thing whole. But you're not going to see the thing whole in ...
You're everything I write about in my songs, but can never have.
When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.
I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
