Anything Quote by Billy Squier

Songwriting is what I do, and there could be worse burdens to carry.

— Mark Kozelek

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about.…

— Dolly Parton

I've always been such an oversharer. I'll tell my Uber driver all of my deepest traumas and insecurities, and so I just think songwriting…

— Olivia Rodrigo

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

— Nick Cave

I like to keep morale up and not take things so seriously all the time. I enjoy life and laughs but I'm serious about…

— Jade Bird

Songwriting isn't a choice. You're either called upon to bear the burden, or you're not. It's not all fun and games.

— Mark Kozelek

That's the fun of songwriting. You can make it whatever you want.

— Laufey

I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's only those…

— Dolly Parton

Songwriting is one thing that I have blessed to myself. It's a very personal thing for me, the business is very shared and you're…

— William Clark Green

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.

— Shakira

Listening closely to songs these days, there's a lot of lazy songwriting where people get away with it. I don't want to be too…

— Steve Gunn

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

— James Taylor