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Once you put songs out, they're not yours anymore. They're everyone else's.

— Alessia Cara

When you write a lot of songs, sometimes you don't have a place for them, and you need an outlet for them.

— Brian Fallon

You can just put songs out and see what happens. I think that is really important to do.

— Lola Young

I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my…

— Linda Perry

I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them…

— Johnny Cash

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing…

— PJ Harvey

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward…

— Doug Martsch

So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of it.

— Carrie Brownstein

Songs are songs, and to reduce them is to waste them.

— James Murphy

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient…

— Valerie June

When you first sit down to write songs, you have to be selfish.

— Ben Howard

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can…

— Ayumi Hamasaki