Kevin Morby Quotes

When I wrote those first songs for the Truckers, songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day,' those were strong songs, very strong songs. But had I been in the position of writing an entire album at that point in time, I don't think the whole album would have been of that kind of quality.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved.

Every time I write a song my approach changes.

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.

I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with John Leventhal, and they were pretty bad. I was in my late twenties when I wrote the first song with him that made any sense to me about what I was rooted in and what spoke for me as an artist. That was 'Diamond in the Rough.'

My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere.

Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.

Everyone has their own journey, and for me, going from singing background to writing songs has truly opened doors for me and has also helped me find myself as an artist in terms of what I want to say and the style of music I want to have.

As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.

The music is the same if you go all the way back to the first albums I made or the middle or whatever. The thing that's different is the lyrics.

I always grow, every album.

My initial ideas are just a starting place. As a record goes along, it becomes more about making discoveries and getting excited about new songs.

When I listen to the first songs I wrote in Rammstein, I have to smile because it was so silly at time.

I've been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school. I guess the oldest song on the record ("I Thought I Saw Your Face") is about eight years old. It's the old "I had my whole life to write my first album and six months to write the second one." I did, to some degree, but actually, a lot of the songs that ended up on the record, I wrote really recently. So it varies.

I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.

'Drip or Drown 2' is more me, more songs. I enhanced it more, even with the cover itself.

We truly experienced a lot as artists.

I've established a certain voice over my albums. It can be an obstacle, but in the end, I think it's a strength, because I can build upon that voice, which is ultimately very much mine.