Been Quote by Martina McBride

I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was for me to sing. Maybe if…

— Skylar Grey

Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

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 have to live to write. But I try to discipline myself into writing on the spot as well. I think it's a misconception…

— Laufey

When it comes to writing songs, I've always got to be commissioned to do it. I won't write unless someone has got a real…

— Clare Grogan

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

— Lisa Marie Presley

I think to really write songs, you need empathy. You have to put yourself in other people's shoes.

— Ryan Bingham

Songwriting is one thing that I have blessed to myself. It's a very personal thing for me, the business is very shared and you're…

— William Clark Green

Songs will always become a story in some way. I think it's my strongpoint as a writer musically. I don't shy away from it.…

— Mike Stud

I've tried over the years all kinds of ways of going about writing and even just thinking about the idea of writing. There was…

— Kurt Wagner

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

— Tom Conti

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of…

— Mary Gauthier