Brain Quote by Amanda Shires

I'm really not a songwriter, so if I hear a song, I feel it and like it, I'll do it. But I'll make it…

— Glen Campbell

I express myself through song when I can't let people in on my thoughts otherwise. I need the creative process.

— Iman Shumpert

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

— Oscar Isaac

When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head…

— John Scofield

The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.

— John Prine

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

It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new…

— Tyler Hilton

I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it.…

— Kristian Bush

When I write a song, that process is sort of entwined with a lyric or a chord progression that suits the vibe, and that'll…

— Michelle Zauner

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an…

— Keren Ann

I make my songs slightly abstract so that people can interpret them their own way. I think that's a lot more special, so you…

— Eliot Sumner

Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until…

— Lianne La Havas