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My process of songwriting comes from a very real place: a place that when you watch 'American Idol' - God bless it, it's probably…

— Linda Perry

Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.

— Andrew Bird

Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.

— Jimmy Iovine

It's amazing to me that songwriting is an actual job.

— Nadine Coyle

Both with songwriting and playing a role, you're delivering the truth of something in a moment. In a lot of ways, it's the same…

— Alison Sudol

It's writing songs within the structure of telling a story, so it becomes a platform for diverse songwriting, for a writing process that's broader…

— Alan Menken

Songwriting is writing about the human experience.

— Tyler Childers

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it

— Sean Lennon

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head

— Michael Jackson

As a producer, youre pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

— DJ Jazzy Jeff

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

— Feist

As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

— DJ Jazzy Jeff