The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the…

I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I try to think of the songs as little movies. They're always pretty visual to me. I can always sort of see them. I…

— Neko Case

I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.

— Norah Jones

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an…

— Graham Parker

I just want to write songs in my little corner. And I still love music, I've not been worn down by cynicism.

— Mick Hucknall

Songs became little time periods of my life, little tales from certain periods, and you build these kingdoms and memories... they're all little personal…

— Ben Howard

My daughters prefer Tears for Fears songs as they're more upbeat and generic. Dad's songs are 'a little too sad' for them, which just…

— Curt Smith

I can never tell what's going to end up being on an album until it's all finished. I'm reading the news everyday, and sometimes…

— Jack Johnson

I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come…

— Juliette Lewis

We have some very personal songs; songs that are a little more close to our hearts, that speak our story a little more.

— Rose

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

— Chris Carmack

I was always into music and stuff, so I would always make songs since I was little.

— Kali Uchis

Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I…

— Taylor Swift

I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.

— Melora Hardin

My main objective with every album is to capture a moment in time, which usually makes the whole process very relaxing. I only discover…

— Alanis Morissette