Come Quote by Ken Hill

I made a promise to be as creative as I could, even outside of music.

— Coy Bowles

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

— St. Lucia

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago,…

— Chris Brown

I express myself through song when I can't let people in on my thoughts otherwise. I need the creative process.

— Iman Shumpert

Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw in a…

— Petra Haden

I have to be inspired to write a song.

— Brett Young

Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take…

— Frank Iero

You can't really do anything creative without a source of inspiration.

— J Tillman

I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

— Brett Dennen

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

— James Taylor

I have a hard time making a linear-idea song, because that's not the way my thoughts work.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

— Austin Carlile