Extra time Quote by Doug Martsch

Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come easy and…

— Mark Kozelek

Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and…

— Chris de Burgh

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on…

— Van Morrison

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

— Van Morrison

Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

— Courtney Love

Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it's your job to chip away and find out what's…

— Brett Dennen

Songs can click together really quickly, and other times, they're really laborious and heavy-lifting.

— James Murphy

[Some] songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them.

— Vic Fuentes

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful…

— Paul McCartney

Usually we're all comfortable playing the songs, but during the song there might be one part where you're like „oh, this part's coming up,…

— John Petrucci

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about…

— Jeff Tweedy

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice…

— Ben Harper