Always Quote by John Oates

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and…

— Idina Menzel

You have to write songs for yourself and not worry about what other people are going to say or think about it. But ultimately…

— Ben Howard

It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean…

— Zooey Deschanel

My philosophy on writing a song for myself is that I always, always, always want to write a song. I always want to write…

— Smokey Robinson

Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the…

— Sevyn Streeter

Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the…

— Nadia Ali

I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I…

— Benmont Tench

When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that…

— Patti Scialfa

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself,…

— Jeff Tweedy

In my earlier days of writing for myself, I wanted songs to be more complex. I thought they had to be for me to…

— Lady Gaga

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived,…

— Jarryd James

If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else,…

— Glenn Frey