Chuck Quote by Elena Tonra

The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us…

— Kevin Jonas

It's funny: I look at songs, and I guess they each tell a story, and the different songs talk about different things. But they're…

— Dianne Reeves

I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of pieced together;…

— Alex Turner

The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going…

— Matthew Ramsey

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

— Travis Barker

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly…

— Tori Amos

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

— Jann Klose

I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing what art…

— David Berman

We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.

— Miranda Lambert

Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they…

— Valerie June

You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of…

— Gillian Welch

Basically what I'm trying to say is that when you get down to the nitty gritty of song writing, it is very logical to…

— Vienna Teng