Again Quote by Jens Lekman

I was having a nice anonymous little time as a writer. I really was on the writer path. I was sort of minding my…

— LP

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them.

— Dave Grohl

The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.

— Benmont Tench

I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself, I would…

— Bridgit Mendler

I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more…

— Robbie Robertson

Because I usually write so autobiographically, it's nice to have someone else's story or a visual and just focus on the music.

— Amber Rubarth

For a while, I thought I would maybe be a writer. But with music, I was such a nerd; I was really obsessive about…

— Perfume Genius

I wanted to write music that would be around for a long time.

— John Waite

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

— Smokey Robinson

I wasn't really writing anything that I felt was worth it at the end, but then certain things sparked me as a solo writer…

— William Beckett

At the beginning of my career, I saw an opportunity to forge new ground and focus on songwriting. Not many people were doing that…

— Kaskade