Cringe Quote by Bradford Cox

I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The…

— Mose Allison

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.

— Rick James

I write songs when I need to. That's how I write songs: when there's something that's bugging me. If something's troubling me, and I…

— Jacob Anderson

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's…

— Ty Segall

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

— Creed Bratton

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel…

— Amy Winehouse

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

— Loretta Lynn

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

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

I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have one. Everything…

— Snoh Aalegra

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

Sometimes, you sit down to write a song, you don't realize what it's going to mean to somebody other than yourself.

— Luke Combs