Creativity Quote by Arlo Parks

Sometimes to move forward you have to let go. I figured that out through opening myself up, allowing people into my creative process. It…

— Ingrid Michaelson

What inspires me is anxiety and the quest to try to change things in my life. ...I got addicted to endings and beginnings and…

— Kevin Drew

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

— JC Chasez

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

— Austin Carlile

Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take…

— Frank Iero

Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff in there.

— Richard Ashcroft

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of…

— Banks

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

— Gwen Stefani

Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone about four…

— Tommy Bolin

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's…

— Jimi Hendrix

Keep at something even when you don't feel inspired. Don't wait for inspiration! I write a lot of songs that are terrible, in the…

— Yukimi Nagano

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.

— David Friedman