Able Quote by LIZ

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen -…

— Gwen Stefani

Obviously I've always loved singing and performing, but I fell in love with songwriting and then I enjoyed doing that for other people and…

— Kacey Musgraves

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

— Ed Sheeran

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

— Boz Scaggs

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all.…

— Bruce Cockburn

Songwriting was always my passion, it just came out in the form of rap. When I listen back to my old mixtapes, I was…

— Jelly Roll

I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most important thing.…

— Dolly Parton

My songwriting is very personal. The music that influenced me was so impactful that had I grown up somewhere else, I know I would…

— Phoebe Bridgers

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

— Rosanne Cash

I was always very creative and loved to sing. Music was my entryway into the arts.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

To try and learn how to be a singer, a really good guitar player, a really good pianist, it's always lagged a bit behind…

— Van Hunt

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the…

— Yungblud