Hymns Quote by Dwight Yoakam

Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.

— Richie Sambora

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

— Paul McCartney

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

— Melissa Etheridge

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

— Robert Smith

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is…

— Jesse Harris

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the…

— Leonard Cohen

I never knew I was a songwriter. I didn't even know I was a singer. My parents just got me a guitar 'cause my…

— Dion DiMucci

I've always been a songwriter.

— Daya

I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.

— Kieran Hebden

I am the kind of songwriter to where I don't have to have experienced it firsthand to write about it.

— Lainey Wilson

When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what…

— Greg Lake