Crosses Quote by Aaron Watson

I was always afraid to write music.

— Dory Previn

Writing songs is a stress-buster for me.

— Amanda Seyfried

When I was younger, I'd be walking down the street and suddenly panic because I had a cool idea and no way of getting…

— Kamasi Washington

I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.

— Ezra Furman

I felt brave when I sang and could put into lyrics what I couldn't tell anybody else.

— Alison Sudol

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

— Rosanne Cash

I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song. A lot…

— Brendon Urie

In a certain sense, every time you sit down to write a song, there's a fear that you've forgotten how to do it.

— Matthew Ramsey

I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on…

— Jason Mraz

I started writing songs later in life because I just couldn't commit to it before.

— Perfume Genius

It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going…

— Bethany Cosentino

Things like rhyming - it just wasn't falling out of my head that way. So I started to get quite freaked out that I…

— Elena Tonra