Songwriting Quotes

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

I could never teach a class on songwriting. I'd tell them to goof off and find a good hideout.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

My sense of rhyme used to be more involved in my songwriting than it is... Still staying in the unconscious frame of mind, you can pull yourself out and throw up two rhymes first and work it back. You get the rhymes first and work it back and then see if you can make it make sense in another kind of way. You can still stay in the unconscious frame of mind to pull it off, which is the state of mind you have to be in anyway.

A BIG PART OF SONGWRITING, like all writing, is editing-distilling thought down to essentials. Novice writers often hide behind filigree. In many cases the artistry is in what is unsaid. As the old saying goes, an iceberg moves gracefully because most of it is beneath the surface.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.