Me Quote by Imelda May

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

— Billy Burke

I won't get into it any more than to say that there are parts of me in all the songs that I write.

— Tracy Chapman

I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.

— Ben Gibbard

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs…

— Alan Jackson

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

— Oscar Isaac

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

Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say.

— Rodney Crowell

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

— Kris Allen

Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually…

— Jack Johnson

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

— Billy Sherwood

The fact is I don't write songs, per se; I've written a couple here and there, but that's not my forte.

— John Dolmayan

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's…

— Jeff Tweedy