Beatles Quote by Paul Rodgers

The only way to be original in your songwriting is to write about your own experiences, and I think that's what we try to…

— Luke Hemmings

What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world that I…

— Bruce Springsteen

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were…

— Wayne Kramer

And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the…

— Bruce Springsteen

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

— Banks

I consider myself primarily a songwriter first, so the goal is to write songs that might be personal, but that people can translate into…

— Carly Pearce

I never knew I was a songwriter. I didn't even know I was a singer. My parents just got me a guitar 'cause my…

— Dion DiMucci

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen -…

— Gwen Stefani

Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

— Tristan Prettyman

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is…

— Enya

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and…

— Liz Phair

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented…

— Amy Winehouse