About Quote by Jarvis Cocker

The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then…

— Robert Smith

It feels like your subconscious can be way ahead of you, as a songwriter. You can write a song that you think is about…

— KT Tunstall

Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want…

— Hunter Hayes

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

— Paul McCartney

I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the…

— Ben Gibbard

During those times like in my early years as a writer I could actually write a song in ten minutes because all of a…

— Ben E. King

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

— Warren Zevon

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like…

— Johnny Cash

For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

— Alan Licht

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming…

— Stevie Wonder

I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and you're always writing. Even in…

— Charlie Worsham

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a…

— Vince Clarke