Relatable Quote by Courtney Barnett

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

— Conor Oberst

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

— Jann Klose

I enjoy the songs that I write, but I can never enjoy them the same way as other peoples' songs.

— Mark Lanegan

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

— David Bowie

If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write anything additional.

— Bob Dylan

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from…

— Macklemore

It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.

— Eric Bachmann

The fact is I don't write songs, per se; I've written a couple here and there, but that's not my forte.

— John Dolmayan

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

— Kris Allen

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like…

— Jeff Tweedy

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.

— Courtney Barnett

It takes a lot of emotional high and struggles to write songs.

— Calum Scott