Attention Quote by Erich Bergen

I've always idolized people who can write songs.

— RuPaul

I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John…

— Carmen Ejogo

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I…

— Rico Love

I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.

— Autre Ne Veut

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

That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought…

— Margaret Whiting

I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it.

— Ester Dean

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how…

— Corey Smith

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing…

— Stephen Sondheim

More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me…

— Patti Smith

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I…

— Kim Gordon

I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I…

— Benmont Tench