Curious Quote by Lyle Lovett

Listening closely to songs these days, there's a lot of lazy songwriting where people get away with it. I don't want to be too…

— Steve Gunn

I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.

— Rick Springfield

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

I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I…

— Kate Voegele

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

— Melissa Etheridge

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

The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.

— Benmont Tench

I got into songwriting because I'm not very good at communicating sometimes, just my true words, so music was always my way of expressing…

— LIZ

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not

— Tommy Shaw

When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience…

— Conor Oberst

I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of…

— Tom Lehrer

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on…

— Matthew Sweet