Down and Quote by Creed Bratton

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

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want…

— Diane Warren

I'm just writing songs to process what's going on, whether in my personal life or in my perception of the world.

— Olivia Rodrigo

You give me the kind of feeling people write songs about.

— Anonymous

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.

— Martha Wainwright

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

— Beyonce Knowles

I don't think talking about myself making songs is a very interesting topic, there are so many other more engaging things to think about…

— Jeffrey Lewis

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

— David Allan Coe

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

— Andy Gibb

If I'm not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw 'em out and see if…

— Kacey Musgraves

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

— John Mayall

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.

— William Beckett