Air Quote by Billy Sherwood

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

— Madonna Ciccone

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would…

— Bo Bice

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

— Frank Iero

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and…

— Richard Marx

I've written songs since the beginning of the 80s.

— Lenny Henry

I was on mad platinum albums... I produced and wrote on them.

— Travis Scott

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

— Tommy Shaw

I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to…

— Natasha Bedingfield

I was mainly a songwriter; I really wasn't much of a performer.

— J. J. Cale

I used to do three or four songs a day, just write them - boom, boom, boom, and done - because of how spontaneous…

— Shaggy

I was writing music for the sake of writing music; it was just fun.

— Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

— Smokey Robinson