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I write all my own music, everything.

— Dave East

With pretty much everything that I've done, in terms of going from being a songwriter and producer for other artists to doing my stuff,…

— Lauv

When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original material. Jimi…

— Paul Rodgers

After winning 'K-pop Star' and debuting as a singer, I had a team of people who helped me. But then I realized that to…

— Jamie Park

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

— Leif Garrett

If you write songs long enough, you run out of material that's original to yourself.

— J. J. Cale

I still take a lot of pride in being able to write my own songs. My story's coming from me.

— Dua Lipa

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is…

— Enya

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

— Smokey Robinson

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented…

— Amy Winehouse

I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I…

— Benmont Tench

Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.

— Mark Hoppus