I come from a songwriter background, so essentially with…

I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a…

— Chris Stapleton

I'm a songwriter and producer, so I'm always wanting to make my own stuff, and not use anybody else's.

— Jonas Blue

When I was a girl, I would make up songs for fun. Then I realized, after making them up, that I could remember how…

— Lady Saw

At the beginning of my career, I saw an opportunity to forge new ground and focus on songwriting. Not many people were doing that…

— Kaskade

I want to make the songs good. I think this is my main focus.

— Ed Sheeran

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

— Marc Almond

I started off just trying to make a wish list for myself. I wanted to work with people I really admire myself. I wanted…

— Tiesto

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

— Adam Jones

I was always into music and stuff, so I would always make songs since I was little.

— Kali Uchis

I make my songs slightly abstract so that people can interpret them their own way. I think that's a lot more special, so you…

— Eliot Sumner

Often we make songs with people for us and one for them.

— Grace Chatto

I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social…

— Matt Berninger

We make songs like a factory and put them out.

— Quavo

Me and Thugger could make nine songs in a day and then choose which songs we like the most and think is gonna do…

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

I wanted to try to make songs that worked as songs, not just as productions. People wanted me to do a solo acoustic session,…

— Katie Stelmanis