I started writing hits the day I sold my piano.

I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.

— Neil Warnock

When I stopped hiding who I am, I started writing hits.

— Shane McAnally

I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.

— Ben Folds

There's a certain amount of pressure that you get from being a popular artist, and I think in the past I put a lot…

— Alison Sudol

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

— Alison Moyet

I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.

— Kenny Hickey

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

— Cole Porter

To be honest I'd just love to keep writing hits for other people... That's kind of my secret dream.

— Charli XCX

Everybody used to be busy writing songs - great songs - that became hits. Now everybody's writing hits. Everybody's desperately writing a hit because…

— Nuno Bettencourt

We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us…

— Ian Brown

Im really good at writing almost hits.

— Ben Folds

I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I…

— Bo Burnham

I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or…

— Jackson Guthy

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

When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were…

— Sabrina Claudio