Believe Quote by Christine Lavin

When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me,…

— Josh Turner

I've been adjusting to what it means to be a songwriter, figuring out what I like about it and what I don't like about…

— Lucy Dacus

I don't know why songwriters struggle. They have to, I guess. If you're a young songwriter, quit struggling. It makes you look bad.

— Tom T. Hall

I always like to write the songs, and they get turned loose into the world, and who knows what happens to them. That's the…

— Chris Stapleton

As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to try to…

— Kenny Chesney

Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.

— Paul Rodgers

If you're a songwriter, it's to perform your songs. For singers, it's just to get to sing somewhere. So while there may be a…

— Donnie Fritts

The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and…

— Stevie Wonder

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter,…

— Cynthia Weil

I'm basically a songwriter, man. Songwriters are down in the fine print, you know? And I really enjoy that.

— J. J. Cale

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

— Bebe Rexha

There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than…

— Kara DioGuardi