Day Quote by Beth Hart

I think it's quite hard to write songs about being happy; it's easier to pour your misery into your lyrics.

— Ellie Rowsell

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

— Julia Holter

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy…

— Elton John

Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

— Ellie Goulding

I always wanted to write a sad song that sounds happy. I think everyone can relate to this emotion.

— Kirstin Maldonado

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

— Merle Travis

I've tried to write songs that just make people feel happy and good.

— Jonas Blue

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

— Andrew Bird

I think it's very hard to write things about being joyful. I find that quite difficult. I think when you're happy, you don't want…

— Hozier

People who write happy songs are often unhappy.

— Chris Martin

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either…

— Moby

I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

— Camila Cabello