Quotes About Songwriting

We'd love to collaborate with Sam Smith. I've told him. Many times. We've got loads of songs we've written that we can literally just hear his voice on.

I get on really well with Jake Gosling, who is a great producer, and I have written a song with Fraser T Smith.

I've gone through the years and I've written stuff for Jules that has never gotten published, but I thought I'd write her smooth R&B bedroom song.

I wouldn't want to write a song in a pair of sneakers. I think it would be a horrible song.

Every love song I write is for Linda.

What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.

'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

It's easiest to write songs when I'm either really in love or really mad at a guy. It's just always best when I'm feeling superemotional.

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

In the meantime [1965-67], [Bob] Dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Visions of Johanna," "Just Like a Woman," and "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands."

I love that I wrote with all kinds of different people.

To be honest I'd just love to keep writing hits for other people... That's kind of my secret dream.

Im a songwriter and Id love to make that a part of my career.

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

I don't end up writing songs in my journals, but I'm sure that my ability to write songs has been helped by how consistently and impulsively I try to get my life into words through the journals.

I think it's very hard to write things about being joyful. I find that quite difficult. I think when you're happy, you don't want to write songs; you just want to enjoy being happy.

John Prine in particular... just the chord changes combined with the words. He definitely can make you cry a little bit. Just a little bit.

Being in a band was so fun and exciting, but I was just kind of focusing more on performance and wasn't really writing the songs - I didn't really think I had a voice.

Sophie does more of the writing, lyrical stuff; I do more of the sitting at the computer and the board stuff. But it blurs. If we're both really feeling it, then we'll keep going with the song.