There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
I just feel like, unfortunately, I'm a person that has to be creative to live. Whether that's, like, painting or making sculptures… — Hunx Copy Share Image
It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered… — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people think that I'm a humorist or comedy songwriter. I will never take offence, but I think… — CMAT Copy Share Image
When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet.… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I remember when I was 10-years old I was at that proverbial fork in the road and I was acting as much… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Our music was, like, Doors-y, but trying to be classical. We all took music classes and tried writing songs, and when we… — Fab Moretti Copy Share Image
I always knew I was going to do something with music, but with my whole family being in the business, acting was… — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
I've been in the songwriting circuit as well. I've been in a couple writing camps where there are seven top writers or… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
I started writing songs with my best friend Eden Rice when were in our early teens. We performed together at local coffee… — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own… — Afrojack Copy Share Image
First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a… — Murray Head Copy Share Image
When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
Somebody who really inspired me to wanna start writing songs is The-Dream, so if The-Dream was to hit me up and be… — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it… — Hal David Copy Share Image
In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
