Failing Quote by Loudon Wainwright III

I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving…

— Anonymous

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and…

— Idina Menzel

I've never been interested in diarising my life through song. So much stuff has been done before. So many people have brilliantly articulated the…

— Dan Smith

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

— Julia Holter

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

— Anne-Marie

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart…

— Adele

I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. - singer…

— Linda Kaplan Thaler

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if…

— Conor Oberst

The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where…

— Billy Ray Cyrus

Women and their impact, good and bad. It makes men write songs. I write about relationships, basically.

— Ben Howard

I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.

— Ezra Furman

I don't really pursue writing songs for other people. I guess one of the things I always think about is a good line in…

— Craig Finn