End Quote by Courtney Act

Songwriting has always been a means to an end for me. That end being a tool to try to understand myself in the world…

— Ruston Kelly

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

— Martin Gore

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone.

— Craig Finn

I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up, that way…

— Jon Foreman

I used to feel like I wasn't a good songwriter when I couldn't finish a song by myself.

— Syd

I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

— Fetty Wap

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

— Luke Temple

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

— Steve Earle

I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather…

— Jimmy Cliff

I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song is so…

— Fefe Dobson

I've always had a tendency to keep an emergency exit in a song. I can't remember ever writing a song that is completely and…

— KT Tunstall

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

— Leonard Cohen