1.
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.
John Lennon
 
2.
I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
James Taylor
 
3.
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
Tracy Chapman
 
4.
Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.
Burt Bacharach
 
5.
I don't write songs, songs write me.
Sammy Cahn
 
6.
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Bob Dylan
 
7.
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
Adam Duritz
 
8.
A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.
Lenny Kravitz
 
9.
A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.
Lenny Kravitz
 
11.
I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.
Delta Goodrem
 
13.
That's what my life is, writing songs.
John Cale
 
16.
I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.
Mel Brooks