Be creative Quote by Curtis Jackson

Sometimes I hate writing songs. Because it hurts sometimes. I'm very emotional.

— Bibi Bourelly

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of…

— Mary Gauthier

A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about…

— Camila Cabello

The reason I write songs I write out of my heart love fear pain hurt sad mad but also when I write songs its…

— Courtney Hood

Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately. In my…

— Jon Foreman

I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heartstrings that way. But whenever…

— Ella Henderson

I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of bruiting, depressing…

— Adam Levine

You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless…

— Harry Styles

Just because you've written a song doesn't mean that you have pulled through. There are definitely songs where I embodied someone else's pain and…

— Mat Kearney

I have always struggled with expressing emotion, I used to think I was a very hard person but music has shown me I'm a…

— Roxanne Emery

As songwriters and artists we get a lot of attention and gratification when we write about the moments that have hurt us, and in…

— Victoria Monet

I think to really write songs, you need empathy. You have to put yourself in other people's shoes.

— Ryan Bingham