First person Quote by Cameron Crowe

Just because I write in the first person doesn't mean that all my songs are autobiographical.

— Thalia Zedek

I love music more than anything, but writing was like my first love.

— Gracie Abrams

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

— St. Vincent

Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they…

— Valerie June

The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going…

— Matthew Ramsey

I am the kind of songwriter to where I don't have to have experienced it firsthand to write about it.

— Lainey Wilson

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.

— Dionne Bromfield

I'm such a first-person writer.

— Laura van den Berg

That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

— RaeLynn

Songwriting is writing about the human experience.

— Tyler Childers

Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about.

— Tori Kelly

I just love writing songs.

— Olivia Rodrigo