There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

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

If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.