Middle Quote by Bat for Lashes

I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who were really…

— Mikky Ekko

When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing…

— Floor Jansen

I was being musically mentored by a lot of people who were obviously more talented and skilled than I was, and I thought that…

— Katy Perry

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I've been in the songwriting circuit as well. I've been in a couple writing camps where there are seven top writers or whatever, and…

— Lzzy Hale

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

— Juliana Hatfield

I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to take songs…

— Danny Jacob

That's what's amazing about songwriting: you can write a story that everyone connects to.

— Jamie Lynn Spears

I was a staff songwriter for Combine Music Publishing in Nashville for seven years. I'd sit around with a groups of friends with a…

— Michael Bacon

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far…

— Alex Flinn

Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.

— Richie Sambora

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into…

— Jack White