If you think I'm a young boy singing these songs, dope…

My angel-boy is close now, as in five-feet-away close. There's no way I'm going to burst into song in front of him. But then…

— Lauren Myracle

I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is…

— Angel Olsen

Singing songs that make you slit your wrists

— Gerard Way

If you write songs long enough, you run out of material that's original to yourself.

— J. J. Cale

I like writing all different kinds of songs. I've wanted to run the gamut of artists.

— Diane Warren

He who sings frightens away his ills.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Anytime you've got artists singing songs, doing grooves that they don't want to do, it's terrible.

— Wilson Pickett

There's a few kids out there who like singing to my songs. They're, like, five, six, seven years old.

— Alice Merton

When I'm singing my songs on stage, I feel like I'm doing a rock show, even though I don't think all my music is…

— LP

You don't have to be singing songs about angst and pain to be credible.

— Tony Kanal

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses,…

— David Crosby

Even in the early stages, you can tell who thinks you're an idiot singing songs someone else has written for you. We never wanted…

— Lauren Mayberry

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

— Billie Holiday

It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.

— Liam Payne

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

— Jimmy Webb