After Quote by Ben Folds

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

— J. J. Cale

I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

— Billy Joel

I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can…

— Boots Riley

The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.

— Christopher Owens

You're just playing the songs over and over again and you maybe lose sight of the writing side of you. You're not just a…

— Ellie Rowsell

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

— Billy Burke

A lot of people from my generation can't write songs anymore, or it's really hard and it's an unpleasant experience. I don't feel that…

— Robbie Robertson

It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.

— Mary Gauthier

I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

— Chris Isaak

You get to thinking that because you've written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But when they're…

— John Prine

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

— Austin Carlile

I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.

— Ben Gibbard