Help Quote by Lisa Stansfield

I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is…

— Angel Olsen

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not…

— Glenn Danzig

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can. I tell the songwriter's story. When…

— Sharon Jones

When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer…

— Tom Scholz

I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

— Jana Kramer

People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!

— Billie Eilish

I think to really write songs, you need empathy. You have to put yourself in other people's shoes.

— Ryan Bingham

I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and…

— Dave Grohl

I sure love to write songs, but I'm not so sure of my voice.

— J. J. Cale

There's lots of bands where somebody will write lyrics and somebody else will sing them. It works for a lot of people, but that…

— Frank Iero

I like to consider myself a narrator of sorts for my friends and I feel like songs are a perfect way to do that.

— Maisie Peters

Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on…

— Kat Edmonson