I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through…

— Hoodie Allen

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I…

— M. Ward

Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually…

— Jack Johnson

I remember people would talk about Country Music like it was this sexist, lame thing. Well, no, because Dolly Parton is writing songs and…

— Neko Case

The first record we put out on Fueled by Ramon, 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea what the term 'producer' meant. It was…

— Travie McCoy

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

I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.

— Melora Hardin