What are the qualities that make the most successful songwriters the most successful songwriters?
Their passion for what they do. Their passion for the music and the song. It’s a gut feeling. It’s just that little bit of magic that’s in those writers that makes them just more. They live and eat and breathe it. The writers that I’ve signed here… it hasn’t taken ten meetings. They’ve come in here and they’ve played me a song and you get it. You see that fire in their eyes and you see their lust for life and how they relate to people. These are special human beings. These are people who look at the world differently. They have a great sense of humor and compassion. Songwriters are some of the best people I’ve ever met. Some of my writers are my best friends because these are the people I want to hang out with. I’m sure that many of them would still do it even if they didn’t get paid for it. Most musicians are like that.
