Always Quote by Mannie Fresh

I had this knack of writing opening lines to my tunes. This helped in making an instant impression.

— Anu Malik

This way of working on individual songs in isolation from other songs is actually how we've always kind of done it.

— Grace Chatto

I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.

— Angel Olsen

I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

— Grace Potter

Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along…

— Jonny Greenwood

You can really do some clever editing even within the limited two-track format.

— Dick Latvala

When you get above the line, you're above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I am always…

— Adrian Younge

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

— Billy Bob Thornton

The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just…

— Zachary Cole Smith

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis…

— G-Eazy

I realised the thing I was best at in music was toplining - coming up with melodies, lyrics, hooks, arrangements, structure; the skeletal form…

— CMAT

Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.

— Kaskade