You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
We all like motorcycles to some degree.
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.
If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.