I visualize songs like a little movie scene and I try to almost talk through the scene. What emotions am I trying to get across? Dean Lewis Read Quote
I started realizing that when I played festivals I didn’t want to be writing all these down, sad songs. Dean Lewis Read Quote
I mean, sometimes it’s really good to listen to something like Tom Petty, that’s purely blissed out. But that’s not me. Dean Lewis Read Quote
There’s nowhere else in the world that’s quite like that, where they encourage going after your dreams, especially in Los Angeles. I think it’s really cool. Dean Lewis Read Quote
I’ve been writing a lot of sad songs, and I got to the point where I was like, ‘You can’t write another one or you’re lying.’ Dean Lewis Read Quote
So, I would write songs… I sort of loved it and hated it in the sense that I would be like, it’s never good enough, and I didn’t think it was that good, but I always kept striving to write better and better stuff. Dean Lewis Read Quote
I wasn’t the kind of guy who was like ‘here’s my demo,’ or ‘listen to my demo.’ I just never thought it was that good. Dean Lewis Read Quote
You can write a song for someone, and then their mom doesn’t like it, and then it doesn’t get released. It could be the best song that you’ve ever written. I hated that, because I didn’t have any control. Dean Lewis Read Quote