Quotes About Songwriting

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

I write songs like "The Sweetest Love." Of course I'm a little cheesy. Love is cheesy. Love is corny. But it's also the greatest feeling in the whole world.

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

I just know that I love to write songs, and I have for a long time.

I really love writing themes and melody.

I love the idea that you can create a world through song.

I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny!

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

The upside potential was so high—you could get a good payday with just one thirty-two-bar hit song—and the barrier to entry so low. Anyone could offer his wares—that is, anyone who could handle the indignity of knocking on door after door and being summarily rejected time and again.

I've been writing since I was 11. But I don't write with a pen, I just sing at the piano with one eye shut like a pirate.

I was 18, at art school, and saw this cute boy playing banjo. I was obsessed. I taught myself how to play. I listened to a lot of country and just messed around. The second song I wrote on the banjo was 'Good to Be a Man.' That what's got me signed.

It's very hard for me to think about my songs and attribute some significance to them.