I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
Taylor Swift
If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it... →
Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.
David Sylvian
I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
T-Pain
They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
Toru Takemitsu