Certain Quote by Elvis Costello

I think that sometimes people fear continuity because it can turn into repetition - and there's a lot of artists who are really good…

— Halsey

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

— Justin Hayward

I think songs can have different lives.

— Rhiannon Giddens

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

— Victoria Justice

I've always listened to a wide variety of music, and I know that shows through my songwriting evolution.

— Jeongyeon

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

— William Beckett

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

— Ariel Pink

I've written about one song on several different albums.

— Gloria Gaynor

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have…

— Norah Jones

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly…

— Tori Amos

Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.

— Brian Fallon

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.

— Mark Lanegan