Deny Quote by Neil Diamond

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

— Amos Lee

I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes…

— Nick Lowe

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

— Paul Simon

Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about.

— Tori Kelly

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas…

— Eric Church

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

— Jann Klose

The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them…

— Nick Cave

Songwriting is just like any other kind of writing - it's either fiction or nonfiction. You can even get into philosophy and politics, which…

— J. J. Cale

The music and the philosophy feed off of one another on a subconscious level, though I've never really integrated my academic teaching into songwriting.…

— Steve Weinstein

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have…

— Win Butler

The songwriting process is different on every record because you're never coming from the same place when you're writing.

— Benji Madden

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

— David Bowie