Aspect Quote by Kevin Drew

I do find it easy to write songs about heartbreak; it comes really naturally to me. It was a little bit more difficult for…

— Marissa Nadler

I've never been interested in diarising my life through song. So much stuff has been done before. So many people have brilliantly articulated the…

— Dan Smith

Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.

— Richie Sambora

I played around with GarageBand before, but I'd never actually made a proper song. So it was getting into the studio with him where…

— Benee

The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.

— Zola Jesus

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

— Lucinda Williams

I don't have the songwriter's obligatory sob story. My sister and I both had a very happy, normal childhood and we've turned into sensible…

— Amy Macdonald

I think to really write songs, you need empathy. You have to put yourself in other people's shoes.

— Ryan Bingham

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

— Yael Naim

I wanted to write songs about other people because I was sick of myself, basically. I didn't like myself very much. 'Ghostwriting' became an…

— Jens Lekman

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of…

— Mary Gauthier

Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about.

— Tori Kelly