About Quote by Diane Warren

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

— Paul McCartney

When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know…

— Tony Joe White

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is…

— Jesse Harris

I write songs when I need to. That's how I write songs: when there's something that's bugging me. If something's troubling me, and I…

— Jacob Anderson

When somebody asks me what a song or a line is about, I feel like I'm not done writing it yet.

— Jason Isbell

The fact is I don't write songs, per se; I've written a couple here and there, but that's not my forte.

— John Dolmayan

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

— Lykke Li

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 don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell.

— Tony Oller

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all…

— Emmylou Harris

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's…

— Ty Segall