“People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.” PeopleDifferentPlaySongConcertsDifferent Place Author:Brett Dennen
“I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.” WantFeelsWritingHeartMayPoliticalSongAgendasSincerityPolitical Agendas Author:Brett Dennen
“I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.” IdeasSongMusicalMelody Author:Brett Dennen
“If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.” IfsThinkingMenWantWritingSongEffectsWeatherUrges Author:Brett Dennen
“Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing.” ThinkingWritingHardSongChallengesDealsIssuesDraws Author:Brett Dennen
“For some reason I can articulate my feelings better in song. I wish it would come out better in regular life too though. The issue is that I struggle with is that I'm worried about what people think, or how they'll react to whatever it is I have to say, and obviously that's not a good thing.” PeopleThinkingI CanReasonFeelingsSongWishStruggleIssuesGood ThingsWorriedFeel Better Author:Brett Dennen
“When you get to say something in a song you're not directing it necessarily at one person. When it's in a song it's easier to get it out. I don't really worry so much about it when I'm writing a song.” WritingPersonsSongWorryEasier Author:Brett Dennen
“I sing the best when I'm really in my voice. It's kind of like I'm meditating but I sort of imagine my voice as a physical thing. I see colours, I feel it moving out of me and I try to tap into images that I was tapping into when I was writing the song.” FeelsWritingTryingKindMovingSongVoiceImagineColourMeditatingTappingMoving OutPhysical Things Author:Brett Dennen
“I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.” WantWritingSongStandardsHigh Standards Author:Brett Dennen
“I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.” WritingWantedSongCollegeMusicianSingersSongwriters Author:Brett Dennen
“I can write songs, but I'm not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I'm not gonna release a song or put it on an album or play it in concert unless it really feels like me.” FeelsWritingI CanPlaySongAlbumsLike MeFeel GoodReleaseConcerts Author:Brett Dennen
“Songs don't really feel like me unless I somehow shed a little secret or open myself somehow or be vulnerable. When I'm singing these songs, it feels like me, and that comes with the vulnerabilities and the strengths and the moments of triumph or whatever.” FeelsLittlesMomentsSongSecretSingingLike MeVulnerableTriumphVulnerabilityShed Author:Brett Dennen
“Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it's your job to chip away and find out what's in the center. Sometimes it comes like swimming fish, and you have to follow it and see where it leads. Sometimes it comes totally fragmented.” DifferentSometimesJobsSongFishesSwimmingChipsClayLumpsFragmented Author:Brett Dennen
“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.” KnowsNeedsDifferentHandsJobsSongKnowingBalanceMethodTechniqueCraftsSongwritersCraftsman Author:Brett Dennen
