Better Quote by Phil Elverum

Working with other people, it's hard to get them to make it sound like what you have in mind. Also, it's really expensive to…

— Nina Nesbitt

This way of working on individual songs in isolation from other songs is actually how we've always kind of done it.

— Grace Chatto

I started writing songs on my own and trying to push myself in that way, and then I stumbled into it being a separate…

— Luke Hemmings

I just believe in collaboration. I mean, I've written songs on my own, you know, but I think if the artist has something to…

— Max Martin

You don't have to work with everybody and be on songs with everybody just to make it.

— Rich the Kid

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice…

— Ben Harper

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

— Cassandra Wilson

I'm always working on multiple songs at a time.

— Wayne Static

I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all…

— Andrew Bird

When you're working with other artists, it's often a mix of your ideas with somebody else's, which can be extremely fruitful. But then it's…

— Sophie

Often, the people I'm working with on music are separate from the rest of my life.

— Daveed Diggs

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself,…

— Jeff Tweedy