Believe Quote by Elvis Costello

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all…

— Emmylou Harris

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is…

— Jesse Harris

We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.

— Miranda Lambert

I don't really write songs anymore.

— Justin Vernon

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

I don't write songs, songs write me.

— Sammy Cahn

I've written plenty of songs that are not tailored for me, writing six different songs to fit six different artists' visions.

— Matthew Koma

Probably not much of a song left in me, you know, if any, because I've written so many, some 250 songs or 300 or…

— Brian Wilson

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

— Gregg Allman

I don't write songs.

— John Corbett

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

— David Bowie

I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

— Maggie Stiefvater