Age Quote by Lights

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas…

— Eric Church

There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter.…

— Sinead O'Connor

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

I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes…

— Nick Lowe

The art of songwriting is just stumbling your way to something really special, and you don't know what you're going to write until you…

— Maren Morris

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

— Richie Sambora

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do…

— Norah Jones

I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung and test…

— Crowder

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

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take…

— Tom Waits

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

— Alex Turner

Songwriting was definitely first. I started singing, and then I was rapping; then I went back to singing. As I was growing up, I…

— William Singe