I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how…

I'm just writing songs to process what's going on, whether in my personal life or in my perception of the world.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with them. I…

— Benmont Tench

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

— Billy Sherwood

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

— Max Schneider

This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this…

— Gotye

I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.

— Cass McCombs

I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.

— Owen Pallett

I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead…

— Bernie Leadon

'Still Writing Songs About You' - that one hits me every time. For some reason, I really feel that song every time we play…

— Matthew Ramsey

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like…

— Jeff Tweedy

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too.…

— Otis Redding

When people start writing songs for award shows, there's a very limited palette you can use. You end up not sounding like you. You…

— Mike Dirnt

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing…

— Loudon Wainwright III

Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what you want…

— Tyler Joseph

That has been my outlet and a way to provide for my child - writing songs for myself and for other artists.

— Jamie Lynn Spears