Always Quote by Taylor Goldsmith

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

— Jane Wiedlin

With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find…

— Travie McCoy

I'm always working on lots of songs at once. For me it's very emotionally driven.

— Kate Brown

I love when a song is conceived as a jigsaw puzzle in the studio, and then it's a natural to play live. That's my…

— Jamie Hince

Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.

— Danny Fox

Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw in a…

— Petra Haden

It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all…

— Nate Ruess

Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I…

— Bonnie Raitt

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

— Ed Kowalczyk

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is…

— Stephen Sondheim

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

— St. Lucia

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

— Austin Carlile