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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.

Brett Dennen

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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Song Worry Writing
I’m a very typical yoga-practicing musician; I do it when I can. I’m not hardcore about it. A lot of my lyrics talk about celebrating life and working through pain. I think that’s what yoga’s about, getting rid of, moving energy and letting it flow through you.
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Lyrics Moving Pain Working Yoga
I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn’t really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.
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Anything Guitar Mountains Old Professional
I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar.
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Good Men Rocks Stars
I can’t really write unless I’m full of inspiration. And even then I can’t write unless I have some alone time.
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Alone Inspiration Time Writing
Nature inspires me because it’s so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.
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Inspire Inward Peaceful
That’s one thing I really appreciate about the yoga culture, that the people are very thankful. They come up to you as much as any fan would, but they express sincere gratitude and I appreciate that.
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Appreciate Culture Gratitude Thankful
A sunny, happy day is beautiful, but when it’s moody, and storm is coming, there’s an energy in the air.
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Air Beautiful Storm
Pain is a part of life. It’s certainly part of my creative process.
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Creative Pain Process
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
Pain is a part of life. It’s certainly part of my creative process.
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Creative Pain Process
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
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
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 there’s a certain magic that comes from being creative.
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Creative Magic Thinking
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 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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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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