Albums Quote by Aaliyah

funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

— Sarah Dessen

Funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad, sad story

— Sarah Dessen

I've been in two long-term relationships and - this sounds awful - they were really helpful for writing heartbreak. It makes good songs.

— Mabel

A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had…

— Yuna

It was like those songs I'd heard as a child, each so familiar, and all mine. When i got older and realized the words…

— Sarah Dessen

I've never written songs about relationships. I've written songs about how I feel. The songs are more about me, than another person. That's the…

— Marilyn Manson

When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So…

— Erin McKeown

I wrote a lot of really sad songs.

— Ruel

I don't have the songwriter's obligatory sob story. My sister and I both had a very happy, normal childhood and we've turned into sensible…

— Amy Macdonald

We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere.…

— Tina Weymouth

It's quite an easy way to write a concept album about love. Everything boils down to love in the end.

— Oliver Sykes

We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to…

— Brendan Bayliss