Battle Quote by Matt Bellamy

I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough…

— Scott Walker

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because…

— Seal

I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is…

— Angel Olsen

I think for an artist it's really important to have experiences, and I've had a lot of those. It's definitely inspired my lyrics and…

— Neon Hitch

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an…

— Keren Ann

Just like any songwriter, the songs come out of where I am in my life and what I'm doing and who I'm hanging out…

— David Longstreth

You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has…

— Julie Andrews

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is…

— Jesse Harris

It's not that I don't know about things - but a lot of what I'm doing means one thing to me at one time…

— Alex G

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch…

— Neil Diamond

Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25…

— Geddy Lee

Every song has a different genesis, or feeling. Usually the lyrics, I don't really know what it's all about, I just kinda do it.…

— Stephen Malkmus