Before Quote by Banks

Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually…

— Jack Johnson

There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on…

— Kat Edmonson

Whenever I write songs, it's my outlet for a certain feeling. I just don't as often feel compelled to write when I'm not really…

— Phoebe Bridgers

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

I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.

— Cass McCombs

There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you get that…

— Bonnie McKee

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few…

— Jimi Hendrix

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

— Warren Zevon

I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as hard; it…

— Shawn Mendes

During those times like in my early years as a writer I could actually write a song in ten minutes because all of a…

— Ben E. King

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming…

— Stevie Wonder