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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

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

There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you…

— Chris Cornell

Songwriting is not particularly easy for me. I think it would be easy for me if I didn't have such high restrictions and feelings…

— John Congleton

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

For me songwriting is very...it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that.' I sit down with the urge to write a…

— Jessica Lea Mayfield

As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously always doing.…

— Katie Stelmanis

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to…

— Jakob Dylan

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

— Jason Bonham

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

My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well.

— James Bay

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