Art Quote by Melanie Martinez

I always feel that if you're going to cover a song, you should make it your own and flip it on its head.

— Chris Stapleton

Every time I do a cover, I completely... pick apart - I take apart the entire song and really reconstruct it. I try and…

— Alexa Ray Joel

I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.

— Scout Niblett

Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.

— Charli XCX

If I sing it, then I wrote it, even if I didnt sing it, write the lyric, make a millie, let another artist bring…

— Ne-yo

I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it…

— Anonymous

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when…

— K. D. Lang

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone…

— Barry Gibb

It's easy to get people to sing along to cover songs, but when it's your song, it's the coolest.

— Chris Lane

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

— Wes Borland

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

— Natasha Bedingfield

My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to…

— Glenn Danzig