I can Quote by Craig Finn

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse…

— Jackson Browne

Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's…

— Mirah

I started singing when I was a teenager. I always wanted to write songs; I just didn't understand how someone could sing without writing…

— Olivia Merilahti

A lot of times, somebody will say something and it will give you a good title. So you carry a pencil with you and…

— Gene Autry

I write songs all the time. Sometimes they're just weird songs I sing while changing a baby, or songs about annoying things that I…

— James Murphy

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

— Natasha Bedingfield

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

— Oscar Isaac

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

— Sky Ferreira

Whenever I write anything, I do sing to it, to try and make sure it's interesting or compelling to sing to. I've gotten in…

— Aaron Dessner

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.

— Elvis Costello

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not…

— Glenn Danzig

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and…

— Kelela