Duty Quote by Juliana Hatfield

I love that element of songwriting. I think it's so important to be open and honest, that's always how I've been in my music.

— Lola Young

I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out - the more I started writing, the more there was honesty.

— Calum Scott

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

— Taylor Swift

Songwriting is one thing that I have blessed to myself. It's a very personal thing for me, the business is very shared and you're…

— William Clark Green

When I'm writing music, I'm not acting it out - it's all me. I feel that my responsibility is to be truthful about myself,…

— Shania Twain

Both with songwriting and playing a role, you're delivering the truth of something in a moment. In a lot of ways, it's the same…

— Alison Sudol

I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I like.

— Michael Gungor

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.

— Shakira

I've always been such an oversharer. I'll tell my Uber driver all of my deepest traumas and insecurities, and so I just think songwriting…

— Olivia Rodrigo

I just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer.

— Charlie Kaufman

I love writing about things I know, and I like to be very honest in my music.

— Alice Merton

I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.

— Mark Lanegan