I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try…

I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if…

— Gordon Lightfoot

I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a…

— Laura Bell Bundy

When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a lighthouse versus…

— Chris Tomlin

I just try to keep making good records, try to write songs the best way I can and take my job seriously. Like most…

— Jason Isbell

I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on…

— Jason Mraz

I did the best that I could to try to write you songs.

— A Day To Remember

As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to try to…

— Kenny Chesney

I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up, that way…

— Jon Foreman

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