Gracie Abrams is being honored as Songwriter of the Year at Billboard‘s upcoming Women In Music event, and she’s also getting a prestigious award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame in June. But she says she feels like she still has a long way to go when it comes to being the best at her craft.
Asked if she feels close to “mastering” songwriting, Gracie tells Billboard, “No. Oh, my God, no. I want to broaden my vocabulary times a thousand. I want to spend the majority of my year reading so that I can do that. I feel nowhere near that level.”
“I have a million people I want to continue to learn from,” she continues. “Taylor [Swift] is a great example of someone I’ve been lucky enough to spend a lot of time around and every single time I’m like, ‘Tell me everything you know, please. Teach me how to be.’ I want to live fully and do my best to capture what that feels like.”
“I feel very far away from having mastered anything in my life,” the singer adds. “But I will continue to attempt to get closer to that point.”
Still having a lot to learn about songwriting doesn’t mean she’s not continuing to create new music. She tells Billboard she and her musical collaborator Aaron Dessner have been “collecting a whole lot of music over the past few months.”
“He and I are both very curious about all of it because I think [the songs] belong in different worlds a little bit, which excites me,” she notes. “I think that means there are many possibilities for what either the singular project looks like or multiple [projects].”
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