Figures Quote by Tom Lehrer

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing…

— Tom Lehrer

I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time.

— Shura

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

— Frank Darabont

The way that I've always viewed my career, I always do what comes to me. I don't write forty songs per album, I write…

— Rick DeJesus

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

— Leif Garrett

I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was…

— Regina Spektor

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

— Poo Bear

I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and…

— Kris Kristofferson

Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

— Nate Ruess

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.

— Toby Keith

I just want to get better at writing songs. That's pretty much the only end goal for me. I really hope I don't have…

— CMAT