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I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut…

— Ester Dean

Songwriting is such a mysterious thing. Its a magical channel thats a gift to you and you cant really conjure it up when you…

— Mike Campbell

You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting.…

— Conor Oberst

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.

— Willie Nelson

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid…

— Juliana Hatfield

I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are…

— Lights

Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van…

— Conor Oberst

Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking…

— Tom Waits

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins

I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing…

— Sheri L. Dew

I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday mornings when…

— Richard Carmona

You don't need to know how the Universe will rearrange itself.

— Rhonda Byrne