Beginning Quote by Grace Potter

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

— Bradford Cox

Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.

— Courtney Barnett

With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's…

— Nick Cave

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a…

— Todd Rundgren

My music doesn't have a beginning or end. It's continuous. I didn't stop writing after the first album came out and everything I wrote…

— Alicia Keys

A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about…

— Camila Cabello

There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

No matter what I'm writing, I almost always start with the music. Definitely, the melody seems to set the tone for whatever emotions come…

— Ryan Bingham

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 feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as hard. It…

— Shawn Mendes

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

— Kris Allen

I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.

— Norah Jones