Bunch Quote by Richard Marx

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

— Smokey Robinson

I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.

— Owen Pallett

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

— Syd

In the past, I've allowed myself to record songs that I wish I had not, but agreed to for one reason or another.

— Patty Smyth

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

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

— Justin Townes Earle

I still take a lot of pride in being able to write my own songs. My story's coming from me.

— Dua Lipa

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not

— Tommy Shaw

I like the old days when, if I wrote a song and I recorded it, it didn't mean somebody else couldn't record it.

— Chris Stapleton

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

— Madonna Ciccone

I think I made records, since early on, that people wanted to listen to.

— Darius Rucker

It was always important to me that I made a record where I really sang well, and I don't think it's happened yet. There's…

— Alison Moyet