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Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make…

— Chrissie Hynde

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

Songwriting is writing about the human experience.

— Tyler Childers

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

Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its own story,…

— C. Sigman

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

— Paul Simon

That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

— RaeLynn

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

— Jo Stafford

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or…

— Pete Seeger

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

— Alex Kapranos

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

— James Taylor