I usually write songs in a guy key because my voice is so…

“She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad case of…

— Patrick Major Dallas OR

“Her voice was husky, vibrating, slightly flat, coming in just under each note like a saucer under a cup.”

— Lorrie Moore

“He liked the sound of her voice, husky and low in a way that got him thinking about pinning her to the rock and…

— Melissa Cutler

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would…

— Bo Bice

I didn't really know you could make a living in songwriting. I was just very fortunate to have the opportunity to play a few…

— Sam Hunt

Are all of Taylor Swifts songs about the same guy, or is she just a whore?

— Anonymous

I hope you know that you were once they most important person in my life for a very long time. You were the guy…

— Anonymous

I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write.

— Linda Perry

People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.

— Linda Perry

If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song…

— Joshua Radin

Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on…

— Don Winslow

The lyrics seem to follow the music, and that's usually how I write. I write more about what comes out of my mouth while…

— Gary Louris

Usually what I do is I write my vocal melody over guitar parts and then I come up with lyrics.

— Hope Sandoval

Because I usually write so autobiographically, it's nice to have someone else's story or a visual and just focus on the music.

— Amber Rubarth

I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or…

— Miles Davis