I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years…

Composing some songs from our love story. =)

— ALYSSA

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

— Joanna Newsom

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

— Justin Hayward

There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little…

— Feist

I've been posting little pieces of my songs for years. It's been funny because they've existed on my Instagram as 45 second clips while…

— Gracie Abrams

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

— Solange Knowles

I go back to things all the time. It's really nice, too, like when I'm going through some kind of a writer's block, and…

— Sharon Van Etten

“But no, music lasted longer than anything it inspired. After LPs, cassettes, and CDs, when matrimony was about to decay into its component elements—alimony…

— Arthur Phillips

It feels incredible to find the type of love I've been writing songs about all these years!

— Jimmie Allen

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

— Sondre Lerche

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

— Drew Goddard

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

— Colbie Caillat

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

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,…

— Gary Hamel

Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life…

— John Powell