Forgotten Quote by Marc Almond

You can always accuse my records of being harrowing or dark or bleak. There is processing of trauma on my records and they contain…

— Erika M. Anderson

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of…

— Gary Numan

I've struggled with self-esteem and depression, like most singer-songwriters. I listen to my EPs on Bandcamp, and I can just hear the pain and…

— Natalie Prass

My songs have a layer of melancholy.

— Mat Kearney

I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into…

— Frankie Cosmos

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of…

— Mary Gauthier

I've been writing songs since I was a kid. You just hope that you get better.

— Michael Penn

I use the songwriting as medicine to kind of help me summarize how I'm feeling so that I can get past it.

— John Popper

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of…

— Mary Gauthier

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

— Olly Alexander

Writing songs is a stress-buster for me.

— Amanda Seyfried

You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the…

— Paul Weller