Able Quote by Mac DeMarco

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

— Austin Carlile

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

— Billy Joel

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the…

— Lenny Kravitz

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be…

— Scott Weiland

I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My great obsession…

— Emily Haines

I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself, I would…

— Bridgit Mendler

I just want to get better at writing songs. That's pretty much the only end goal for me. I really hope I don't have…

— CMAT

I write songs simply because I get a kick out of making them exist. I'm also sort of addicted to the recording studio, and…

— Wooden Wand

Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.

— Nina Nesbitt

I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs…

— Dan Hill

I have always had to write songs. As a lifestyle and as a business model, it's pretty difficult. Largely at this point I'm so…

— Doug Walters

There are still songs that I'm writing. I like to write. I like to take a long time to do my songs, not even…

— Lupe Fiasco