Courses Quote by Marion Cotillard

I always thought that I was a terrible writer. And I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing.…

— Marion Cotillard

Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new…

— PJ Harvey

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.

— Martha Wainwright

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

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

You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless…

— Harry Styles

It's inevitable that if you write an album or a song, obviously it's going to come from how you feel. You're writing it for…

— Nicola Roberts

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

— Manika

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the…

— Marilyn Manson

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a…

— Sharon Van Etten

You have to write songs for yourself and not worry about what other people are going to say or think about it. But ultimately…

— Ben Howard

I'm pretty self-conscious, so I tend to work in a way where I say what I need to say and get out rather than…

— Neko Case