Fickle Quote by Beth Moore

I've found it really hard to finish writing songs when you're writing on not just your schedule but somebody else's.

— Chris Carmack

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

— Jann Klose

Just because something's important doesn't mean I necessarily have to write songs about it and release them right now.

— Declan McKenna

I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up, that way…

— Jon Foreman

I've noticed that things aren't bad all the time. So I've tried to write songs that people will want to hear when they're getting…

— Ryan Ross

We write constantly. It's nice to have more to pick from and we pitch songs to other artists, so it's not always songs for…

— Martie Maguire

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

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

— Stephen Sondheim

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all…

— Emmylou Harris

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

— Alex Turner

I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will…

— Paul McCartney