Afraid Quote by Jason Isbell

Sometimes I'll go without writing for a while and I'll start to be driven nuts. I start doubting my writing ability. So I'll sit…

— Kim Shattuck

I sometimes think I should write a book. I've seen some things, you know, but it's all there in the songs.

— Dizzee Rascal

Maybe someday there will be a song I write that I never let see the light of day because I don't want it to…

— Maren Morris

I try to keep my eyes and ears open all the time for the bones of my next song: things people say, melodies I…

— Will Kimbrough

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

— Billy Burke

I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.

— Ezra Furman

The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.

— Christopher Owens

Every song I've written, it's about what I've gone through, good or bad. It kind of comes out of me, and I'm grateful for…

— Kelly Jones

I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell.

— Tony Oller

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be…

— Scott Weiland

I feel like for me to write songs that I would be interested in as a listener, there has to be tension, and there…

— Jason Isbell

I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind will be damaged if I don't put…

— Leonard Cohen