Artist Quote by Andy Wilkinson

That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you start imitating…

— J. J. Cale

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

— Tracy Chapman

Songwriting is one thing that I have blessed to myself. It's a very personal thing for me, the business is very shared and you're…

— William Clark Green

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have…

— Win Butler

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it…

— Jason Robert Brown

I feel like when you're an artist and you first come out - people don't want you to be as creative as you could…

— Kid Ink

You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting.…

— Conor Oberst

If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much…

— Nikka Costa

Sometimes I catch myself doing something that I've already done. The more I've done, the more that's likely to happen. Then I just throw…

— Bruce Cockburn

Listening closely to songs these days, there's a lot of lazy songwriting where people get away with it. I don't want to be too…

— Steve Gunn

Songwriting never feels like it's me doing anything consciously except for becoming aware somehow that it's time to let something out, or let something…

— Scout Niblett

I don't think a lot of people know what a real artist I am. I don't think they know I write my own music.

— Chanel West Coast