Agendas Quote by Eddie Vedder

As cheesy as it sounds, I feel like I do write a lot, not necessarily for a message to be taken away. I feel…

— Thomston

As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to try to…

— Kenny Chesney

I don't really premeditate what I write my songs about; you know, they just kind of happen, and I can't start writing songs to…

— Conor Oberst

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want…

— Diane Warren

When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that…

— Patti Scialfa

Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't…

— Yuna

I'd say, at the end of the day, you know, from a songwriting practice standpoint, you write songs to make yourself feel something true…

— Ben Hopkins

You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless…

— Harry Styles

I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character,…

— David Byrne

It's inevitable that if you write an album or a song, obviously it's going to come from how you feel. You're writing it for…

— Nicola Roberts

I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out…

— Dan Hill

I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.

— Craig Finn