Add Quote by James Young

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

— Brian Wilson

I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You…

— Charlie Daniels

I think that anyone really can write songs, it just takes having an idea and a feeling and chasing it, and you can learn…

— Carly Rae Jepsen

I've never written anything that wasn't somewhat of a collaboration. I don't know how people do it on their own.

— Charlie Day

I just believe in collaboration. I mean, I've written songs on my own, you know, but I think if the artist has something to…

— Max Martin

I tend to write pretty much by myself. I always did that anyway. I used to write with Ron Strykert 'cause he was the…

— Colin Hay

We all just meet up and someone's house or the studio and we'll just jam and we'll lock into something that sounds cool. I'll…

— Mitch Lucker

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

— Luis Fonsi

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that…

— Shawn Colvin

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

— Maurice Gibb

I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people…

— Alan Licht

That's what's amazing about songwriting: you can write a story that everyone connects to.

— Jamie Lynn Spears