Bob Quote by Jay Watson

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

— Conor Oberst

I only write about stuff I know. I don't have a lot of experience with boys and stuff so I write a lot of…

— Brie Larson

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

— Kris Allen

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and…

— Rob Thomas

I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.

— Courtney Barnett

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

— Jackie Evancho

I can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff…

— Miles Davis

I didn't know if I could write. I was writing all these songs at home and was like, 'Maybe I can write?'

— Morgan Wallen

I've always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I've never written a story.

— Laurie Simmons

I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I think I started writing because no one had ever told me you can write about the things you know in a musical. They…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I'm not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they're super-relatable.

— Shawn Mendes