Doe Quote by John Michael Hayes

I have to be inspired to write a song.

— Brett Young

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I…

— Carly Simon

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many…

— PJ Harvey

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

— Mick Jagger

Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never…

— George Gershwin

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a…

— Kimbra

I have been inspired by countless artists over the years, but there's also times when you just gotta make your own inspiration.

— Aesop Rock

Well, I always write when I am inspired, and I am not a constant song-writer.

— Katie Melua

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room,…

— Kelly Jones

It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying to write…

— Linda Perry

You don't necessarily have to write a song to make it your own. After all, Elvis never wrote a song in his life.

— Leo Sayer