Diane Warren
Diane Warren
Diane Eve Warren is an American songwriter. Her songs have received eight Academy Award nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, including one win, and twelve Grammy Award nominations, including one win. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001. Her success in the US has been paralleled in the UK, where she has been rated the third most successful female artist. Peter Reichardt, former Chairman of EMI Music Publishing UK, commented; "She's the most important songwriter in the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth7 September 1956
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved it. I started making up my own songs right away.
A lot of people give up, but you can't stop me. If you close the door, I'll just jump out the window.
What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.
I don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.'
I was born loving music. It was always my friend.
What keeps me interested is that I have to do it. It's like people wake up and they have to breathe; I have to write songs; I have to make music. That's like eating or breathing to me. It's that simple.
You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.
I've been in grocery stores, and if they're playing my music, I'll yell, 'Hey! I wrote that!' I've been next to cars and have done that!
I've never been in love. I know, it's weird.
I like to start with an idea, but then again, I might be sitting at the keyboard, and just playing a bunch of chords that sound cool together, and something just inspires an idea from that.
Being inducted into the songwriting hall of fame by Clive Davis, that was pretty memorable.
Cher hated 'If I Could Turn Back Time.' I had to beg her, literally, on my knees, just to try it. Happens all the time.
Maybe my songs are my partner. How 'bout that? Yeah, the biggest relationship I have is with my songs.
When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.