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I think most artists would agree, it’s one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that’s loving it, it’s another thing to add cameras, but it’s a really cool trade off to be on television.

Brett Dennen

What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.
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Choose Clever People Trying
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.
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Moving Song Writing
I don’t wanna limit myself to anything, but I eat like a vegetarian and I eat mostly raw.
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Limits Mostly Vegetarian
It’s usually kids that normally don’t have a chance to get to meet each other because they’re separated by millions of different things.
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Chance Different Kids
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.
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College Song Writing
What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.
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Clever People Trying
I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.
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Issues Thinking Two
Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I’m thankful for that. I haven’t lost my head, and I haven’t lost my desire to keep growing.
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Desire Growing Lost
I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I’m in nature.
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Ideas Musical Song
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.
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Jobs Song Swimming
The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
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Inspire Mountain Strong
The people at festivals are much more open to dance and just sing along. They come right up to the stage and they’re very thankful.
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Gratitude People Yoga
It’s usually kids that normally don’t have a chance to get to meet each other because they’re separated by millions of different things.
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Chance Different Kids
I think food is the great equalizer. Other than the ocean and the air, food is the thing that we all share in common. I think along with that comes the question of why are some people starving, and why do some people produce more food than they need, and why is food going to waste.
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Air Common Ocean Question Think Thinking
The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
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Inspire Mountain Strong
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.
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People Play Song
As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in the public eye, I think you have this responsibility to influence people.
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Eye Heart Writing
I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.
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Issues Thinking Two
I think most artists would agree, it’s one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that’s loving it, it’s another thing to add cameras, but it’s a really cool trade off to be on television.
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Artists Cameras Thinking
Things aren’t always as they appear. I’ve been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.
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Believe Want Way
I think for me to do a traditional sitting meditation I would really have to spend a couple weeks working at it. The only way I know how to efficiently, effectively meditate is by walking in nature.
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Couple Meditation Thinking
I also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain – that is the most inspiring thing.
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Fall Falling Love Rain
The ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.
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Moving Ocean Water
The ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.
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Moving Ocean Water
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.
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Play Song Writing
I used to want to be fully observational, but I’m just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.
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Inspiration Kind Want
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.
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Agenda Heart Political Song Writing

I think most artists would agree, it’s one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that’s loving it, it’s another thing to add cameras, but it’s a really cool trade off to be on television.

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