Intellectual Quote by Alanis Morissette

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

— Austin Carlile

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it…

— James Mercer

I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically. I say…

— Charli XCX

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a…

— Vince Clarke

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's…

— Jeff Tweedy

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

— Lykke Li

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up…

— Luke Bryan

With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find…

— Travie McCoy

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

— St. Lucia

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

— Lewis Capaldi

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that…

— Gerard Way

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

— Luke Temple