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It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on…

— Matthew Sweet

The songs I was writing still had lyrics or sentiments that didn't match what I was feeling. It was old, negative energy coming out…

— Damien Rice

As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously always doing.…

— Katie Stelmanis

I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.

— Ingrid Michaelson

A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.

— Van Morrison

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five…

— Bruce Cockburn

I've retreated to what I was originally, which is an individual songwriter.

— Denny Laine

The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.

— Van Morrison

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has…

— Carly Simon

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was…

— Gary Numan

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

— Boz Scaggs

Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in…

— Jade Bird