Craft Quote by Tommy Mottola

My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood. I wanted…

— Madonna Ciccone

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

— Shania Twain

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how…

— Corey Smith

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

— Leif Garrett

I don't really know how writing process happens, how these songs are arrived at. One of the things I like about the writing process…

— Richard Thompson

I worked hard on making a body of work that takes people on a journey. It was never about making a certain type of…

— Khalid

It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It…

— Manika

Songwriting is writing about the human experience.

— Tyler Childers

All songs, all pieces of art, reflect the world that they were made in and the values of those artists and the hopes and…

— Hozier

Songwriting has always been a means to an end for me. That end being a tool to try to understand myself in the world…

— Ruston Kelly

The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

— Ethan Hawke

When you write, what's going on in your life shines through in the songs.

— Wayne Static