Dedicated Quote by Casey Abrams

With rock, you can write about anything. There are rock songs I still don't know what they're singing about, but you want to get…

— Darius Rucker

There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you can, and…

— M.I.A

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

— Glen Hansard

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

— Barry White

Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.

— Stephen Sondheim

I've never been interested in diarising my life through song. So much stuff has been done before. So many people have brilliantly articulated the…

— Dan Smith

It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

— Kacey Musgraves

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

— Corey Smith

My concern has always been to write songs that my audience, my fans are able to identify with.

— Guru Randhawa

It's very hard for me to write a generic song that could be sung by anybody.

— The-Dream

When you write a song that is so personal to yourself, it's really hard to picture anybody else understanding it when you're singing it.…

— Butch Walker

I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character,…

— David Byrne