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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

There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter.…

— Sinead O'Connor

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an…

— Keren Ann

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do…

— Norah Jones

I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs…

— Mac DeMarco

When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction.…

— Juliana Hatfield

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

— Jann Klose

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.

— William Beckett

There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you can, and…

— M.I.A

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

— Desmond Dekker

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

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

— Jimmy Buffett