Better Quote by Neil Diamond

I used to feel like I wasn't a good songwriter when I couldn't finish a song by myself.

— Syd

Songs are snapshots of what you’re going through, and mine involve questioning, searching for completion, joy, and truth, and desperation for relief. I’m satisfied…

— Melissa Ferrick

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

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

— Yael Naim

I struggled with a lot of doubts around my songwriting and around what I was and what my purpose and mission were.

— Jens Lekman

When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So…

— Erin McKeown

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music.…

— Liz Phair

That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought…

— Margaret Whiting

I think after doing Push and Shove and having it not be successful, I lost a lot of confidence. Songwriting, for me, has always…

— Gwen Stefani

When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing…

— Floor Jansen

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I…

— Rico Love

The songs I was writing still had lyrics or sentiments that didn't match what I was feeling. It was old, negative energy coming out…

— Damien Rice