Destined Quote by Bonnie McKee

When you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about usually comes…

— Luke Pritchard

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

— Lykke Li

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

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

When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know…

— Tony Joe White

It feels like your subconscious can be way ahead of you, as a songwriter. You can write a song that you think is about…

— KT Tunstall

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

— Carly Rae Jepsen

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on…

— Van Morrison

Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can…

— Isaac Hanson

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

There's nothing like that feeling of having just written a song that you know is 'the song,' and you know it's really great, and…

— Tom Petty

Songs are snapshots of things - it's likened to looking at pictures. It will never feel like it felt in real life. When you…

— Michael Benjamin Lerner