Alive Quote by Ellie Goulding

It feels like your subconscious can be way ahead of you, as a songwriter. You can write a song that you think is about…

— KT Tunstall

There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you get that…

— Bonnie McKee

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

— Lykke Li

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because…

— Seal

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

When I write songs, it's very random. I get influenced by the most random things! Sometimes it just comes to me in my sleep…

— Roshon Fegan

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out…

— Gary Clark, Jr

Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually…

— Jack Johnson

I think the trick is that you have to change how you take stuff in. Maybe the early beginnings of a song come out…

— Conor O'Brien

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

— Vance Joy

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a…

— Vince Clarke

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's…

— Jeff Tweedy