Kevin Jonas Quotes

I used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft.

I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

I love Miranda Lambert; I think she's wonderful. I love the song 'Love Letters' and 'Famous in a Small Town.'

I listened to a lot of Bob Dylan songs to see how he works. I've gotten into writing story-songs.

I hear a good song and I start thinking, 'Oh shoot. You know there's a story that can be told to this,' and whatnot.

If you want to be a songwriter, you've got to obsess over it.

Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room.

When we write songs, we don't ever sit down to write an Old Dominion song. We just sit down to write the best song we possibly can.

With Rihanna, it's always a collaboration, and that's why I love her so much.

I wrote them kind of consecutively, starting with 'Holy,' and then '1950,' 'Talia,' 'Upper West Side,' 'Make My Bed,' and I was kind of like, 'This is it.' It felt right. It felt complete. It felt like a sentence. I really enjoyed making it.

I wrote my first song when I was about eight. It was about putting a diaper on a chicken!

I was a Kimya fan for a long time, a Moldy Peaches fan, so I got to work on her 'Thunder Thighs' record a little bit and we became friends and just started writing songs.

Songwriting is just like any other kind of writing - it's either fiction or nonfiction. You can even get into philosophy and politics, which I've done on occasion.

I don't care if it's Dr. Dre or Dr. Luke or Brian Eno. When you're in a studio and making music together, it becomes pretty apparent if you see eye to eye.

I get on really well with Jake Gosling, who is a great producer, and I have written a song with Fraser T Smith.

It was actually working with Kendrick Lamar that pushed me further into the act of songwriting, specifically.

Collaborating on lyrics has never worked for me.

As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

Johnny Andrews can make me fly with his ideas for new songs. It has always been a pure pleasure to write with him.

I see myself as a songwriter and a poet.

My favorite Adele song is 'Hello.'

I am an Alanis Morissette fan. I think that she has a fantastic voice, and I would love to sing with her someday.

I made the track 'Si Tu Novio Te Deja Sola' before I met Balvin.