Able Quote by Dave Matthews

I do experience something pretty commonly with every song; there's some moment where it clicks into its own life with its own emotional impact…

— Mirah

Everything stems from real experiences but I do also have a very vivid imagination. A song lyric gets easily carried away with itself and…

— Imogen Heap

For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic.

— Lauv

You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit…

— John Lydon

When the lyrics to a song relate so much to you, you feel like that person wrote it for your soul.

— Evangeline Willis

A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot.…

— Phil Elvrum

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am.…

— Taylor Swift

If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music -…

— Sarah Barthel

There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you get that…

— Bonnie McKee

Every song I've written, it's about what I've gone through, good or bad. It kind of comes out of me, and I'm grateful for…

— Kelly Jones

There are so many dimensions in my music, and I think mostly what people hear is hope - the describing of experiences and the…

— Michael Tolcher

I think life is really hard sometimes. It's not easy to wake up every day and go through what you go through. But the…

— Charlie Haden