Boss Quote by Gavin Rossdale

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.

— Josh Silver

As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to try to…

— Kenny Chesney

There's times, in certain songs, that I might be in my own world, and who cares about who's out there, you know? You have…

— Jimmy Scott

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient…

— Valerie June

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

— Poo Bear

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and…

— Kelela

The curse of being a songwriter is that's you're always at work. I could look out the window right now and see something that…

— Chris Stapleton

I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own songs anymore.…

— Afrojack

I can't hire other people to write songs for me. I have to write them myself.

— Shakira

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

— Beck

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

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