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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.

Brett Dennen

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
Pain is a part of life. It’s certainly part of my creative process.
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Creative Pain Process
Songs don’t really feel like me unless I somehow shed a little secret or open myself somehow or be vulnerable. When I’m singing these songs, it feels like me, and that comes with the vulnerabilities and the strengths and the moments of triumph or whatever.
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Secret Singing Song
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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

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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