Brain Quote by Kelsea Ballerini

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

— James Taylor

When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the…

— Ronnie Dunn

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

— Bruno Mars

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

— Jon Pardi

The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.

— John Prine

The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.

— Lights

My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.

— Ben Gibbard

When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write…

— Sia

Sometimes when you start writing a song, you dont know where theyre going to lead you. You just kind of follow the ideas that…

— Mike Campbell

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then…

— Nick Cave

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins

Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't…

— Yuna