Band Quote by Colleen Hoover

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.

— Gwen Stefani

I'm very passionate about music and was excited to see that the majority of readers loved the inclusion of lyrics.

— Colleen Hoover

I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just minor stepping stones.

— Jon Bellion

Sometimes, the songs that really affected me were not from the artist catalogue of their music, like the song 'Thunder Road' by Bruce Springsteen.…

— Beth Hart

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

— Tom Odell

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The…

— Joan Baez

Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt want someone…

— Ray LaMontagne

When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So…

— Erin McKeown

I think I took a few stabs at writing socially conscious lyrics. I had never intended to write a song about the Gulf War,…

— Bucky Pope

I am an open book through the songwriting.

— Lara Fabian

The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next…

— Dan Hill

Death Cab always gets right of first refusal on everything I write, but I tend to know early on. There's a song that has…

— Ben Gibbard