Animals Quote by Jens Lekman

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is…

— Jesse Harris

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want…

— Diane Warren

The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.

— Benmont Tench

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've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

— David Allan Coe

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all…

— Emmylou Harris

My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone through and…

— Lalaine

When somebody asks me what a song or a line is about, I feel like I'm not done writing it yet.

— Jason Isbell

I write songs so that people can make them into what it means to them as well.

— William Beckett

If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who…

— Neil Patrick Harris

The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where…

— Billy Ray Cyrus

I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

— Madeleine L'Engle