Attention Quote by IU

Growing up with music as a kid - I used to feel like artists were writing songs about me falling in love.

— Becky Hill

I've had to accept that - that everyone cannot love me. Because when there's love, there's hate. When there's light, there's dark. But it…

— RM

It was like those songs I'd heard as a child, each so familiar, and all mine. When i got older and realized the words…

— Sarah Dessen

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

— Kylie Minogue

I think when you have one song that does really well, people love you from that song, or they hate you from that song.

— Tash Sultana

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music.…

— Liz Phair

It was all the things I wanted my music to be, but yet it wasn't grand and it wasn't obtuse - it wasn't overshooting,…

— Justin Vernon

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and…

— Lorde

Lyrics mean a lot to me, and I won't record a song unless I can feel it. That's something I learned from Carter Stanley.…

— Keith Whitley

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

— Benee

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

— Elvis Costello

Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt want someone…

— Ray LaMontagne