There is nothing else to do in Nashville except for write…

The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and…

— Waylon Jennings

I came to Nashville in the early '90s, and I thought, 'OK, enough is enough. I write songs; I just don't have the backbone…

— Tiffany Darwish

One of the great reasons to be in Nashville is, you get guys like Shane McAnally to write songs with.

— Darius Rucker

I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real…

— Aviv Nevo

I wouldn't know any other way to live except to be an artist. I'm not very good at anything else.

— Fred Tomaselli

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of…

— Michael Caine

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

I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.

— Mika

When I write songs, it's very random. I get influenced by the most random things! Sometimes it just comes to me in my sleep…

— Roshon Fegan

I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.

— David Byrne

It was a lot easier to write songs before I had a record deal, because the record labels and the industry doesn't mean to…

— Ashton Shepherd

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

— Carly Simon

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

— Laura Mvula

I don't really write songs anymore.

— Justin Vernon

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

— George Thorogood