Anything Quote by Benmont Tench

I started writing songs at eight. Heartbreak songs - don't ask me why. It was the stuff I used to hear, so I imitated…

— Stefflon Don

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first…

— Adele

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

— Smokey Robinson

I started writing songs later in life because I just couldn't commit to it before.

— Perfume Genius

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

— Leif Garrett

The world has changed a lot since I started making records.I used to go into a studio and there were songs there, chosen for…

— Shelby Lynne

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. Songwriting…

— Smokey Robinson

Not to be a bummer, but heartbreak is great for inspiration - we all know that - and it's really hard to write songs…

— MO

In itself, I spent a year writing, you know all these different songs and when it came to recording the record, I just pulled…

— Wednesday 13

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not

— Tommy Shaw

Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally…

— Thomas Mars

I could have pigeonholed us and wrote a whole record like 'Pumped Up Kicks,' and we would have been this breezy, nostalgic West Coast…

— Mark Foster