I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

— Robert Smith

I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.

— Owen Pallett

When I write songs, it's very random. I get influenced by the most random things! Sometimes it just comes to me in my sleep…

— Roshon Fegan

If I write songs trying to top other songs, it's a lot of pressure.

— Nicky Jam

When I started trying to produce records for other people, one of the first tracks I wrote and produced was sort of a 'Kelly…

— Ricky Reed

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't…

— Randy Bachman

I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some…

— Greg Graffin

I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and…

— Hanif Kureishi

When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy…

— Jill Sobule

I don't write duets - I write songs for my voice.

— Tarja Turunen

I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

— Miranda Cosgrove

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that…

— Yael Naim

Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write something new and record it.

— Glenn Hughes

I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.

— Mika

I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal…

— Corey Taylor