Approach Quote by Christopher Owens

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

— Paul McCartney

I express myself through song when I can't let people in on my thoughts otherwise. I need the creative process.

— Iman Shumpert

If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in…

— Charlie Daniels

There's not a lot of thinking in my music. I freestyle a lot of things and organize it later, and then it becomes a…

— Masego

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demo-graphic of people I'm trying to…

— Taylor Swift

I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with…

— Sam Hunt

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

— Warren Zevon

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like…

— Johnny Cash

I love to write songs, but they don't come easy to me - I spend a lot of time writing really dumb stuff that…

— Michael McDonald

I think that's the only way I know how to write songs, is to think about my life, and also to think about the…

— Rostam Batmanglij

On past records I usually did start with a story or an idea for a song and then write around it, but on Achilles'…

— David Bazan

When I sit down to write a song, I try to think about how I want it to feel and try to be very…

— Noah Kahan