Beautiful Quote by Mary Gauthier

Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take…

— Frank Iero

My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well.

— James Bay

Pain's always been the root of my music. I just write what I feel.

— NF

I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your…

— Kaki King

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

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

— Naomi Watts

I use the songwriting as medicine to kind of help me summarize how I'm feeling so that I can get past it.

— John Popper

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

— Donovan

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

— Tom Walker

Just because you've written a song doesn't mean that you have pulled through. There are definitely songs where I embodied someone else's pain and…

— Mat Kearney

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

— Rod Stewart

I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss…

— Taylor Swift