Attention Quote by Iris DeMent

When you write a great song, it just blows you away. When you write a song that connects with people around the world -…

— Gwen Stefani

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'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

— William Beckett

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

— Bill Callahan

I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at…

— PJ Harvey

I love the pursuit of songwriting, and I've seen what songs can do in people's lives. Some of the stories that come back from…

— Matt Redman

I'm just writing songs to process what's going on, whether in my personal life or in my perception of the world.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

— David Allan Coe

The world has changed a lot since I started making records.I used to go into a studio and there were songs there, chosen for…

— Shelby Lynne

The fact is I don't write songs, per se; I've written a couple here and there, but that's not my forte.

— John Dolmayan

I think my songs serve a purpose in a very therapeutic way to do with relationships, very different to do with my opinions on…

— Lapsley

I write songs like someone would write a really tiny book. I think it's the same thing. It's building this world, painting it and…

— Maisie Peters