Follow Quote by Joe Strummer

I think that's the only way I know how to write songs, is to think about my life, and also to think about the…

— Rostam Batmanglij

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

— Warren Zevon

I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically. I say…

— Charli XCX

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

— John Lennon

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a…

— Rufus Wainwright

Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually…

— Jack Johnson

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that…

— Gerard Way

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 actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been…

— Shane McCrae

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

— Bob Dylan

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 you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about usually comes…

— Luke Pritchard