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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.

Brett Dennen

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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 ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.

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  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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  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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  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’m an avid juicer and a healthy eater.

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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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  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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  The ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.

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  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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  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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  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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  Follow your heart and you won’t get lost.

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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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  I’m a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.

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