Acoustic guitar Quote by Craig Finn

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

— Annie Lennox

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have…

— Win Butler

The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them…

— Nick Cave

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

— Jimmy Buffett

Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its own story,…

— C. Sigman

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about.…

— Dolly Parton

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

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas…

— Eric Church

There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter.…

— Sinead O'Connor

Songwriting is writing about the human experience.

— Tyler Childers