Editing Quote by Juliana Hatfield

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have…

— Win Butler

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

— Alex Kapranos

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas…

— Eric Church

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make…

— Chrissie Hynde

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do…

— Norah Jones

I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung and test…

— Crowder

Songwriting is a muscle. The more you do it, the better you get at it.

— Jason Derulo

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered,…

— Mick Jagger

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

— Alex Turner

Songwriting is a difficult thing, but it's not so bad when you remove the barriers you put up yourself.

— Jason Bonham

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of…

— Julian Casablancas

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