Able Quote by Cody Simpson

When you write a song that is so personal to yourself, it's really hard to picture anybody else understanding it when you're singing it.…

— Butch Walker

Everything I write tends to come from my own personal experiences, or from people close to me that I'm singing about.

— Bill Ward

I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was for me to sing. Maybe if…

— Skylar Grey

You have to write songs for yourself and not worry about what other people are going to say or think about it. But ultimately…

— Ben Howard

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do…

— Norah Jones

Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the…

— Nadia Ali

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if…

— Conor Oberst

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and…

— Idina Menzel

Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.

— Charli XCX

I don't really pursue writing songs for other people. I guess one of the things I always think about is a good line in…

— Craig Finn

I'm a songwriter-singer. I'm very vocal oriented, of course, but songwriting - no matter whether it's for myself or another artist - is of…

— LP

For me, lyrics are the most important thing in a song. And if they don't have meaning, I would never sing them - unless…

— Atif Aslam