Well, the first day we went through three songs, very…

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

— Gwen Stefani

On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one…

— Cynthia Weil

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room,…

— Kelly Jones

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

— Nick Cave

I'm so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music.

— Taylor Swift

It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show…

— Gerry Beckley

The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta write a…

— Andy Kim

All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.

— Bon Scott

All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.

— Nicole Krauss

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

— Gaines Adams

“They dug and they dug, so their day went by for them, their night. And they did not praise God, who, so they heard,…

— Paul Celan

“Father knew he might die that day, and he went anyway.”

— Catherine Jones Payne

The day you went away, my world slipped away.

— Anonymous

“At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath of your…

— robert m drake

In our day we went from - we went into saloons. We couldn't cross over like you can today, get a television series and…

— Don Rickles