Children Quote by Joni Mitchell

Songwriting really anchored me.

— Freya Ridings

The New Kids took some hits for, you know, not writing their own music. But on a songwriting standpoint, I mean, I'd never written…

— Joey McIntyre

Songwriting was a gift that came to me when I needed it the most.

— Kelsea Ballerini

I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me.

— Curtis Mayfield

Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens!

— Keri Hilson

Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in…

— Jade Bird

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on…

— Matthew Sweet

Songwriting was my own journey. I never fit in with structure in songwriting.

— Dawn Richard

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

— Jane Wiedlin

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father,…

— Pete Townshend

Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely forthcoming.

— Leon Russell

I think part of my job as a songwriter is to go back in my memory and pull up those pains for other people…

— Gregory Porter