Doe Quote by Dean Wareham

All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you've…

— Lou Barlow

Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about.

— Tori Kelly

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it…

— James Mercer

It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something…

— Thomas Mars

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

The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then…

— Robert Smith

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the…

— Keren Ann

I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility…

— Shawn Colvin

The hardest part about writing any song is, what do you write? And how do I rewrite things? You start to run out of…

— Brad Paisley

When you've had a chance to live some experiences then you can really write, and not having lived that much when I was young…

— Jose Feliciano

A lot of people from my generation can't write songs anymore, or it's really hard and it's an unpleasant experience. I don't feel that…

— Robbie Robertson

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

— Bryan Adams