Hard Quote by Denison Witmer

Both with songwriting and playing a role, you're delivering the truth of something in a moment. In a lot of ways, it's the same…

— Alison Sudol

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

— Alex Turner

I've always used songwriting as a way to help me organise reality.

— Jason Mraz

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

— James Taylor

The good thing about songwriting is you don't have to delineate between what's true and what's fiction; records aren't put on the shelf that…

— Jason Isbell

I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.

— Mark Lanegan

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

— Juliana Hatfield

That's the fun of songwriting. You can make it whatever you want.

— Laufey

I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to…

— Lou Doillon

Songwriting is determined by me, man... just me. I write from real life, you...

— T-Pain

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered,…

— Mick Jagger

When I open my mouth and sing, the truth comes out. When I write, the truth comes out. I can't lie. That, I think,…

— George Michael