Death Quote by Rosanne Cash

The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to…

— Natasha Trethewey

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of…

— Mary Gauthier

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

— Marguerite Young

I use the songwriting as medicine to kind of help me summarize how I'm feeling so that I can get past it.

— John Popper

My songwriting has brought so much to me as an artist and my ability that I have as an artist has brought so much…

— Ahmad Balshe

My songwriting is just journaling out my life via song.

— Laufey

The purpose of my songwriting is to put the things I have been through in a song in order to help others who may…

— Guy Sebastian

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

— Alanis Morissette

I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure…

— Philip Schultz

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

— Isabel Allende

Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult. It doesn't…

— Jesmyn Ward

“Many of us are driven to write through experiences born from pain, generating a need to uniquely express our own inner turmoil. Light-hearted inspiration…

— Keith Steinbaum