Admire Quote by Brad Paisley

I've always appreciated people like Graham Parker or Loudon Wainwright III, who spend their entire lives writing songs and working their asses off just…

— Judd Apatow

My style of writing has been influenced by sort of scavenging the pieces of music that I've heard, and it'll just be a moment.

— Stephen Schwartz

Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and work.

— Jade Bird

I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.

— Kool Keith

The best songs I've written tend to 'write themselves' in some ways.

— Jelly Roll

As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I…

— David Nail

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.

— Lyle Lovett

I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.

— Meredith Brooks

I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the temptation to…

— Peter Blegvad

I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.

— Ezra Furman

Good songwriters write about what consumes their heart, and ours is about our relationship with God.

— Bart Millard

“Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful.”

— Douglas Bond