My favorite songwriters are all solo artists.Kevin MorbyTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“My favorite songwriters are all solo artists.
“'Rock Bottom Riser' by Smog - I was just in Europe, and my jet lag never really went away. I wasn't sleeping very much. Then one night, my girlfriend saw a Bill Callahan show in L.A. and took a video of that song and sent it to me. I was just listening to it over and over - it was comforting.”Kevin MorbyComforting
“'Reign' - and this might sound cheesy, but it's a dream I had. I dreamt everything that happened in that song, woke up, and wrote the song.”
“In Milan, I'm treated with the respect that doctors receive in America. It's wonderful living where artists are revered.”Terence Trent D'ArbyArtists
“I had a very easy middle class upbringing and never had to worry about anything. But my parents came from nothing and from broken homes, and their stories were always very interesting.”Kevin MorbyBroken
“To be alive at all is so crazy, to experience the wide spectrum of feelings and emotions is so wild, but we have nothing else to compare it to, so it becomes normal.”Kevin MorbyAlive
“On 'City Music', I wanted there to be grit, and I wanted it to be loose, and I wanted there to be mistakes.”Kevin MorbyGrit
“Atlanta was a welcoming presence for a lot of artists; they called it 'the Mecca of the South.' I got to see the Negro Ensemble Company, Cicely Tyson, Geraldine Page, Ruby Dee, all onstage.”LaTanya RichardsonArtists
“'Jelly,' more than any black musical before it, celebrated the majesty, the purity, the joy of so many artists who are unable to fully embody these same qualities in their own lives.”George C. WolfeArtists
“There are artists in Belgium who try to imitate American artists. But it's like, if you're Belgian pretending to be American, you won't be better than the American because you aren't American. You have to do your own stuff.”StromaeArtists