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My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories. — Taylor Swift

I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band. — Tom Stoppard

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing. — Krist Novoselic

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist. — Meghan Trainor

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period. — Nile Rodgers

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies. — Flume

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me. — Gwen Stefani

Songwriting is my gift from God. — Smokey Robinson

I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music. — Charlotte Eriksson

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting. — Scott Weiland

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes. — Sharon Van Etten

Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to, — Brittany Howard

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough. — David Bowie

Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong. — Jimmy Webb

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet. — Billy Joel

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. — Janine Turner

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively. — Tommy Shaw

I've always been insecure about my singing. That's why I've focused so much on my songwriting. — Brenda Russell

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes. — Greg Lake

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting. — Juliana Hatfield

Songwriting is my true passion and that's what the BMI awards are all about. — Kevin Rudolf

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you. — Eric Church

Songwriting is an art distinct from poetry. — Nick Hornby

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. — Ray Davies

I think my favorite thing is songwriting. — Carlos Ponce

Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies — Steven Tyler

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think. — Richie Sambora

Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates. — Richie Sambora

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. — Dave Mustaine

Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be. — David Byrne

Songwriting is my main thing. I know that I'll do that for the rest of my life. — Emeli Sande

We influence singing but never really songwriting. — Charles King

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you. — John Lennon

My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well. — James Bay

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is ... songs comes through you. — Greg Lake

I think that talent, good songwriting and passion, will always outlast hype. — Beau Bokan

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing. — Vusi Mahlasela

That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise. — Sufjan Stevens

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul. — Annie Lennox

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is. — Amanda Palmer

I think I'm more prolific in the songwriting. — Ringo Starr

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability. — Barry Mann

Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium. — Will Sheff

I see pictures in my mind and become the character in the song as I'm writing. It's kind of method songwriting, where you're the actor in the song. — Diane Warren

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go. — Criss Jami

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work. — Chrissie Hynde

People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul. — Craig Finn

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting. — Sheryl Crow

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy. — Zooey Deschanel

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have. — Mick Taylor

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting. — Ken Hill

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's. — Brian Setzer

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. — Joe Strummer

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer! — Brian Molko

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter. — Trey Songz

I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort. — Mark Kozelek

My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff. — James Mercer

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas. — Gary Kemp

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together. — Boz Scaggs

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people. — Loretta Lynn

I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline. — Pete Townshend

I think my entire songwriting catalog reflects where I was in my life at the time. I capture whatever moment I am experiencing in life. — Rayvon Owen

I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting. — Neil Diamond

My head translates emotions into song. Songwriting is cathartic for me. — Antoniette Costa

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. — Dave Matthews

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through. — Feist

Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting. — Nina Nesbitt

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality. — Martin Gore

I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes? — Billy Joel

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery. — Paul Simon

No one can attack you when you're songwriting; it's you and a song, which is a great place to be. — Gin Wigmore

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare. — Gwen Stefani

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve. — Beck

My passion is more in songwriting than ... in being a star. — Shania Twain

[Songwriting is] something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice. — Nick Jonas

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language. — Miguel

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it. — Alex Turner

A song unheard is a song undiscovered. — Lisa Goldin

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day. — Sean Lennon

I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting guitarist who occasionally sang. — Travis Morrison

Songwriting is determined by me, man ... just me. I write from real life, you ... — T-Pain

That's the great thing about songwriting: You have that time to have perspective and look back and think about all the things you'd want to say. — Gin Wigmore

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting. — Neil Innes

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it. — Shakira

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing. — James Taylor

Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all. — Todd Snider

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive. — Taylor Swift

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be. — Steve Earle

Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music. — Bonnie Raitt

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most. — Conor Oberst

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in. — Jakob Dylan

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory. — Neil Diamond

I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included. — Ingrid Michaelson

I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting. — Amos Lee

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up. — Dustin Lynch

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control. — Tracy Chapman

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase. — Ezra Furman

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows. — George Frideric Handel