Flip Quote by Beth Ditto

As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to try to…

— Kenny Chesney

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is…

— Jesse Harris

When you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about usually comes…

— Luke Pritchard

It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing…

— Christine Lavin

It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.

— James Taylor

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want…

— Diane Warren

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

— Austin Carlile

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

— Bryan Adams

Actually think anybody ever approaches writing any song, I think the song approaches them, truth be told. Usually what happens is that a song…

— Jon Fratelli

I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

— K. Flay

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

— Jann Klose