Agree Quote by Grant-Lee Phillips

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy…

— Elton John

I think it's quite hard to write songs about being happy; it's easier to pour your misery into your lyrics.

— Ellie Rowsell

It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.

— Eric Bachmann

Not everyone wants to be in misery in every song!

— Machine Gun Kelly

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of…

— Mary Gauthier

As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.

— Jessica Origliasso

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

— Donovan

I should be writing songs about happiness all day long, but a lot of my songs get inspired from that place of unworthiness and…

— Beth Hart

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

— Lucinda Williams

Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition…

— Peter Gabriel

To fully appreciate the music, you have to see the misery.

— Ian Brennan

What inspires me is anxiety and the quest to try to change things in my life. ...I got addicted to endings and beginnings and…

— Kevin Drew