Knows Quote by Lin-Manuel Miranda

I've tried over the years all kinds of ways of going about writing and even just thinking about the idea of writing. There was…

— Kurt Wagner

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

— Kris Allen

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the…

— Yungblud

Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is close to…

— Rachel Bloom

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

— St. Vincent

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

— Lisa Marie Presley

I started writting songs when I was really little because there were things I could say through songs that I couldn't verbalize any other…

— Alanis Morissette

When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assignments were. I was working on the…

— John Tesh

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later…

— Etgar Keret

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 always known I could write. I have an ear for production and melody. It was just that, in those early years, I let…

— Belinda Carlisle

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

— Amy Winehouse