Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a…

It's so archaic. It's just, like, bizarre to me. I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look…

— Scarlett Johansson

Sometimes you're writing a song and you have an image whilst writing a song. I don't think you ever base a songwriting process around…

— Luke Hemmings

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

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

— David Bowie

I'm often just writing just to write. I'm not writing with...If I write, like, sitting down with a goal in mind, it's always, like,…

— Dan Deacon

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

— Adele

“I never really chose to be a writer. It's just always been what I do. Writing chose me...”

— Té Russ

“No, I am just writing this because, sometimes, you’re still all I have to write about. Sometimes you’re the only thing that my typewriter…

— Moriah Pearson

I made the choice not to have children, so I can spend my days just writing; there are no kids demanding my time.

— Seanan McGuire

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

— Billy Joel

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

— Simone Muench

I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'

— Harvey Pekar

“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.”

— Joseph Eastwood

I was very in my own head as a kid. But I liked it there! I was just writing poetry, writing stories, writing plays.…

— Arlo Parks

I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

— Dan Deacon