Music Quote by Barry Mann

We wrote the songs we wrote - we took from our own experiences, melded it together, and wrote what became 'Appetite For Destruction.'

— Duff McKagan

We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.

— Isaac Hanson

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

— Travis Barker

The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us…

— Kevin Jonas

We are always writing music.

— Shavo Odadjian

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

— Chris Lowe

I just see us as songwriters.

— Luke Hemmings

We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.'

— Taboo

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

— Mike Lowry

This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought people wanted…

— Matthew Ramsey

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

— Brian Harvey

We've never written anything to have success with it. We've written songs that we love.

— Nuno Bettencourt