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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

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something. — Luke Bryan

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

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

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

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

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting. — Natalie Imbruglia

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

A song unheard is a song undiscovered. — Lisa Goldin

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

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

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

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

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

When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise. — Timothy B. Schmit

Obviously I attach myself so much to my songwriting. If I didn't attach myself to that being my sole attribute, then I would be fine with those. — Luke Temple

The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it. — Lights

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 felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars. — Benjamin Orr

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason. — Colbie Caillat

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing. — Jo Stafford

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery. — Paul Simon

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

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

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