Block Quote by Elena Tonra

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of…

— Banks

I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a…

— Emmy Rossum

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

— Dustin Lynch

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a…

— Eminem

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that…

— Gerard Way

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

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

— Lykke Li

I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.

— Taylor Swift

I feel like songwriting changed from something that I liked doing to something that, I feel, is a very important outlet for me to…

— Dan Mangan

My writing process is consecutive, like, 'mad scientist' crazy. It's not totally writing something that rhymes or even writing a rap necessarily. Sometimes it's…

— J.I.D

Sometimes you write songs that don't all fit together. What do you, just throw them away? This might be a chance for growth and…

— Amanda Shires

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

— Warren Zevon