Celebrate Quote by Amy Grant

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

— Taylor Swift

One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an artist not…

— Zooey Deschanel

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

— Gordon Getty

Sometimes, you sit down to write a song, you don't realize what it's going to mean to somebody other than yourself.

— Luke Combs

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the…

— Marilyn Manson

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

— Loretta Lynn

Maybe someday there will be a song I write that I never let see the light of day because I don't want it to…

— Maren Morris

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

— Anne-Marie

Like as a fan of music, I feel like everything that I listen to influences my writing, whether it's a song where I know…

— Gracie Abrams

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as…

— Norah Jones

Being a songwriter, you are accepting that this isn't about you. If you do want it to be about you, you're going to be…

— Justin Tranter

I write songs when I need to. That's how I write songs: when there's something that's bugging me. If something's troubling me, and I…

— Jacob Anderson