Looks Quote by Hamilton Leithauser

If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.

— Phil Collins

I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before…

— Hamilton Leithauser

We absolutely thrive on the live setting. Even when we're in the studio, we make sure the songs we create are something we can…

— Ivan Moody

We started writing songs like 'Shook Ones' and 'Survival of the Fittest' explaining our neighborhood, but more our personal lives.

— Prodigy

This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.

— Christopher Owens

I worked hard on making a body of work that takes people on a journey. It was never about making a certain type of…

— Khalid

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

— Billy Sherwood

I make my living writing songs and, you know, I'm not a show biz kind of guy.

— J. J. Cale

For one, the whole concept of 'Live From Here' - writing a song every week - was like composition bootcamp.

— Chris Thile

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can…

— Jacques Villeneuve

For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.

— Leon Russell

I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.

— Rick Ross