Committed Quote by Earl Sweatshirt

Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

— Alanis Morissette

I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life.…

— Kelly Clarkson

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing…

— PJ Harvey

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

— Melissa Etheridge

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on…

— Van Morrison

When you're a songwriter, people wonder about your personal life and the meanings behind the songs, and that can feel pretty invasive, so you…

— Will Sheff

When you're a songwriter, you don't have control over which songs get heard and which ones don't.

— Ryan Hurd

I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't expect an…

— Rico Love

I'm not an author, but as a songwriter, I'm afforded this kind of luxurious ambiguity in songs of being able to confess the secrets…

— Finneas

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

— Anonymous

I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by…

— Tom Odell

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

— Madonna Ciccone