Just like any songwriter, the songs come out of where I am…

On piano, I tend to write either gospel or singer-songwriter songs, sometimes kind of rocking blues songs. But the more heavier rock stuff I…

— Beth Hart

I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing what art…

— David Berman

I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and you're always writing. Even in…

— Charlie Worsham

I write about things I care about, like any songwriter, whether it's a personal thing or not.

— Declan McKenna

Working with Secondhand Serenade, I just felt like a songwriter, you know, working with another songwriter.

— John Popper

It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn.

— Cynthia Weil

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

— Tim Finn

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

— Mike Love

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now.…

— Alison Krauss

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only…

— Adam Duritz

There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I…

— Lata Mangeshkar

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

— Judy Collins

We actually have some pretty good songs. But if they come out too serious, then we have to scrap them.

— Kyle Gass

Nothing Rhymed,' my first single in England, was a nice ballad, which I thought would sound like a songwriter typical of the day -…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

I mean, I am a little different from the band in that I, I'm pretty much an isolated writer. I don't associate myself with…

— Michael Angelakos