Melodrama Quote by Katie Stelmanis

I guess songwriting has become a little more difficult for me over the years or maybe I regard it in a different light because…

— Justin Rutledge

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

— Luke Temple

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 think what makes me great as a songwriter is there's still an artist behind it.

— The-Dream

In terms of songwriting I think it might be a circular thing. I tend to go back and forth between quieter melancholy songs and…

— Thalia Zedek

I understand that all the songs I write are quite melodramatic and are quite extreme from my perspective, but that's how life feels to…

— Montaigne

I'm a great believer in not over-thinking lyrics. You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs…

— Paul Stanley

I think going away and disappearing for a couple of years - or a few years, or whatever - definitely changed the way I…

— Elly Jackson

Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new…

— PJ Harvey

The songs I was writing still had lyrics or sentiments that didn't match what I was feeling. It was old, negative energy coming out…

— Damien Rice

I can't say I was consciously thinking of the big changes in the music business when I was writing the lyrics, but change, uncertainty,…

— Rivers Cuomo

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were,…

— Ellie Goulding