Challenges Quote by Brett Dennen

All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you've…

— Lou Barlow

When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are…

— Corey Smith

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of…

— Mary Gauthier

Writing songs is a stress-buster for me.

— Amanda Seyfried

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

— Marian McPartland

Conflict is a great thing to start with. For me as a songwriter, I am constantly trying to solve problems.

— Rachael Yamagata

I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song. A lot…

— Brendon Urie

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

— Corey Smith

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's…

— Ty Segall

I write songs when I need to. That's how I write songs: when there's something that's bugging me. If something's troubling me, and I…

— Jacob Anderson

When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on.

— Jazmine Sullivan

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

— Austin Carlile