Being Quote by Kathleen Edwards

The way I look at it, I'm a songwriter that just happens to play guitar.

— Rick Nielsen

I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like a poet.

— Kate Nash

I was mainly a songwriter; I really wasn't much of a performer.

— J. J. Cale

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

— Santigold

People always try to pigeonhole you, especially the media, who are happy if they can label you as a particular kind of artist. But…

— Chris de Burgh

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

— Robert Smith

I don't think I'm a good-enough songwriter.

— Gin Wigmore

I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to express ideas…

— Sturgill Simpson

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

— Bebe Rexha

I think I was born to be a songwriter.

— Richard Ashcroft

When people say the words 'singer-songwriter,' I think they have an image in their heads of someone with an acoustic guitar who is a…

— George Ezra

It turns out that I'm far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think people judge me a lot before they ever…

— Michael Buble