Fast Quote by Sia

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

— Michael McDonald

There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than…

— Kara DioGuardi

I don't actually think that I'm a great songwriter - I'm just a really prolific songwriter, and I write so much that some of…

— Olivia Rodrigo

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

— Stephen Sondheim

I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound,…

— Nick Lowe

Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute…

— Lou Reed

I think I'm more prolific in the songwriting.

— Ringo Starr

Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.

— Paul Rodgers

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.

— Greg Lake

It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. I like when it's really…

— Halsey

That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't need more…

— Jeff Tweedy

It's a really big struggle for me to write a song. Songs take either 30 seconds for me to write or a year or…

— Adam Levine