I was always into music and stuff, so I would always make…

That's the best kind of music: the stuff that happens based off intuition.

— Kali Uchis

We make songs like a factory and put them out.

— Quavo

I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social…

— Matt Berninger

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

The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take on a…

— Craig Finn

I got a reputation for being 'eclectic' or some damn thing like that, but to me, the different kinds of music I play are…

— Ry Cooder