KIESZA AND JENNA ANDREWS

 

 

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A conversation on songwriting and mastery.

Kiesza and Jenna Andrews are artists and songwriters originally from Calgary.

Theme music composed and performed by Henry Lyons.

Illustration by Grace Hauck

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NOTABLE QUOTES

 

 

 

ON FAILURE:

“People think they need 10,000 hours of success, but when you actually look at it, it’s really 10,000 hours of failure before you can succeed.”

- Kiesza

 

 

ON MASTERY:

“Eventually, you start to feel music in a different way. When you’re learning an instrument, you feel like there’s a technicality to it. But when it becomes part of you, your fingers just flow over the guitar.”

- Jenna Andrews

 

 

ON SINGULARITY:

“You cannot create the same thing twice. It’s like asking your mom to create a clone of you. You don’t control that. You do not control the songs that come out of you.”

- Kiesza

 

 

ON CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP:

“As songwriters and creative people, we have to be so much smarter now that we have more options [for how to release our art]. As a songwriter, I’m now also doing vocal production. If you are heavily involved, make sure you’re involved in a business way, too.”

- Jenna Andrews

 

 

ON HONESTY IN SONGWRITING:

“When you’re writing for yourself, you have to write for you, from your soul. You can let people inspire you, and you can learn from people and let them help you interpret what you’re feeling. But you have to write from your heart.”

- Kiesza