Composition Quote by Chris Thile

I worked hard on making a body of work that takes people on a journey. It was never about making a certain type of…

— Khalid

It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn.

— Cynthia Weil

There are about five or six songs that were written in full or in part while I was in Iraq, and that was definitely…

— Bryan Hayes

Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.

— Paul Rodgers

Playing live doesn't inform how I write songs, and I don't write much on the road, because it's not a conducive atmosphere.

— Michael Penn

I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff.

— Hamilton Leithauser

We absolutely thrive on the live setting. Even when we're in the studio, we make sure the songs we create are something we can…

— Ivan Moody

I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.

— Florence Welch

I just wanted to write songs that would be amazing live, to interact with the audience.

— Chappell Roan

In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from…

— Estelle

That's been a pretty interesting thing, visiting schools and performing and doing songwriting talks and stuff.

— Declan McKenna

Songwriting is writing about the human experience.

— Tyler Childers