Dull Quote by Devin Townsend

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

— Barry Mann

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

— Ted Nugent

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

— Austin Carlile

I've written some really good songs that I love hungover because I wasn't overthinking it.

— Maren Morris

I like to make up songs. And it's my opinion that all these songs mean a lot to me, but that doesn't mean I…

— Todd Snider

I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it

— Warren Zevon

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

— Neil Young

Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.

— Noel Gallagher

I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was…

— Ozzy Osbourne

I don't like doing substandard work... I can't sleep at night if I make a bad song.

— Amaal Mallik

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle…

— Aaron Watson

Basically, my musical life is split between raving with drugged-up kids and reading obscure 75-year-old poetry, drinking very nice red wine with aged, graying…

— Henrik Vibskov