Careers Quote by Corey Smith

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the…

— Yungblud

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen -…

— Gwen Stefani

I grew up listening to topical music - songs that were about things. So when I write songs, a lot of the time, they're…

— Santigold

I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.

— SonReal

Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.

— Richie Sambora

For years, I wrote songs to try to get cuts or try to have hits or try to appease a label or to be…

— Walker Hayes

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a…

— Juliana Hatfield

I realized music is the most important thing to me and I love writing songs, and I think I had more to say in…

— Chad Gilbert

I got into songwriting because I'm not very good at communicating sometimes, just my true words, so music was always my way of expressing…

— LIZ

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the…

— Lenny Kravitz

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I…

— Rico Love

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be…

— Jason Mraz