I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar.
BRETT DENNENNothing 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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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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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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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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Follow your heart and you won’t get lost.
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I love being creative, and for me it doesn’t matter what it is – whether it’s art or music or just daydreaming.
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I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood.
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I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.
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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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