Joy Quote by Dan Smith

I'm mostly inspired by relationships and things that are going on in my everyday life. It's hard for me to write songs about things…

— Meiko

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 do find it easy to write songs about heartbreak; it comes really naturally to me. It was a little bit more difficult for…

— Marissa Nadler

I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my…

— Neil Diamond

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart…

— Adele

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

— Anne-Marie

I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories…

— Chuck Ragan

I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's…

— R. Kelly

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and…

— Idina Menzel

My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about this.' But…

— Jens Lekman

Not to be a bummer, but heartbreak is great for inspiration - we all know that - and it's really hard to write songs…

— MO

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