Else Quote by Grimes

Usually when I make music, in my head I'm like 'this isn't Grimes, this is just some other project that you can release later,…

— Grimes

It feels weird to play songs that I don't really... feel any more.

— Phil Elverum

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

— Sky Ferreira

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky…

— Cher Lloyd

It's weird with making music - you can have no vibe while you're working on something and recognize that the music was special afterwards.…

— Yukimi Nagano

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

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

I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really…

— Ryan Adams

There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.

— Leona Lewis

I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess…

— Britney Spears

That's the way a musician is. You're isolated, in a weird way, because music is haunting you as much as it's loving you. It's…

— Joey Jordison

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that…

— Gerard Way