Art Quote by Janelle Monae

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or…

— Pete Seeger

When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music.

— Goldie

I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.

— Romeo Santos

I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could…

— Lorde

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a…

— Kimbra

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the…

— Daniel Johnston

The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just…

— Zachary Cole Smith

The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta write a…

— Andy Kim

Sometimes when you start writing a song, you dont know where theyre going to lead you. You just kind of follow the ideas that…

— Mike Campbell

You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless…

— Harry Styles

When I'm doing a drawing, I get lots of ideas I use them in my songs, even. I do a lot of drawings because…

— Daniel Johnston

The thrill of writing songs for other people, when you get that right, that person's soul speaks to that song; you've done them a…

— LP