I don't want to focus too much on trying to write a song…

Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

— Kacey Musgraves

When I was about 13 or 14. I was in a Kingston Trio type group. We evolved into the New Breed. Our first song…

— Timothy B. Schmit

“I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every…

— Hailey Abbott

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that…

— Shawn Colvin

You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless…

— Harry Styles

When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.

— Cass McCombs

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that…

— Kathleen Hanna

At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on…

— Jason Isbell

I have a notebook that I take with me everywhere. I free-write in it when there are situations that I know I can write…

— Agent M

I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down.…

— John Lennon

It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying to write…

— Linda Perry

I feel like trying to write a song in order to be a big hit is just not something I'm interested in because it's…

— Mark Foster

People were trying to write songs to knock Lil Nas X off his perch; I didn't try to do that.

— Tones and I

I'm just going to keep trying to write music for me because that's what got me here.

— Tones and I

That awkward moment when you say you don't want to here a song on the radio but then 2 minutes later you start singing it.

— Anonymous