About Quote by Lykke Li

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

— Justin Hayward

There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you get that…

— Bonnie McKee

When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know…

— Tony Joe White

Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually…

— Jack Johnson

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want…

— Diane Warren

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

— Warren Zevon

When you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about usually comes…

— Luke Pritchard

I grew up listening to topical music - songs that were about things. So when I write songs, a lot of the time, they're…

— Santigold

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of…

— Banks

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that…

— Gerard Way

I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell.

— Tony Oller

When I'm listening to a song, it's the lyrics and the stories they tell that matter most to me.

— Sara Evans