Day Quote by Sevyn Streeter

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in…

— Aretha Franklin

There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused…

— John Oates

You should write songs about what you feel, but you can't write in such a way like it's a diary entry. You should write…

— Lights

You have to write songs for yourself and not worry about what other people are going to say or think about it. But ultimately…

— Ben Howard

If I'm not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw 'em out and see if…

— Kacey Musgraves

My writing was very much like my diary, and I just put it out there to put it out there because I didn't really…

— Tate McRae

I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was for me to sing. Maybe if…

— Skylar Grey

Sometimes I'll go without writing for a while and I'll start to be driven nuts. I start doubting my writing ability. So I'll sit…

— Kim Shattuck

I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself, I would…

— Bridgit Mendler

If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write anything additional.

— Bob Dylan

My philosophy on writing a song for myself is that I always, always, always want to write a song. I always want to write…

— Smokey Robinson

I've tried over the years all kinds of ways of going about writing and even just thinking about the idea of writing. There was…

— Kurt Wagner