Conscious Quote by Alejandra Deheza

People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.

— Linda Perry

When you're a songwriter, people wonder about your personal life and the meanings behind the songs, and that can feel pretty invasive, so you…

— Will Sheff

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of…

— Gregory Harrison

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a…

— Paul Stanley

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going…

— Alison Goldfrapp

I feel a duty to write because I can write songs.

— Justin Hayward

As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played.…

— Jonny Greenwood

The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really…

— Kelsea Ballerini

The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.

— Benmont Tench

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

— Madonna Ciccone

I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.

— Matt Hammitt

In the past, I've allowed myself to record songs that I wish I had not, but agreed to for one reason or another.

— Patty Smyth