Ahead Quote by Sharon Needles

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

— John Legend

I can write for weeks or months sometimes and edit it down to a song. I feel like it's a piece of music that…

— Macklemore

I've found it really hard to finish writing songs when you're writing on not just your schedule but somebody else's.

— Chris Carmack

I think taking too long to work on a record you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as…

— John Darnielle

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric…

— Erin McKeown

I tend to have a lot of songs ready for each record I do anyway. I always have. I was thinking, the more you…

— Beth Hart

Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.

— Jack Antonoff

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the…

— Andrae Crouch

I'm a very slow songwriter; it takes me sometimes years to write one song, if I ever finish.

— Michael McDonald

I usually just write a song and record it that day, and then that's kind of it. I'm not very good at going back…

— Arlo Parks

I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the…

— Ben Gibbard

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

— Taylor Swift