Dangerous Quote by Mike Campbell

I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.

— Jens Lekman

I think it's really easy to write a miserable song, and it's really easy to criticise a happy-sounding song. So it's daunting to write…

— Ellie Rowsell

I think the majority of my music is dark, but the reason it's tolerable is that there's always a little bit of hope in…

— Everlast

The songwriting style, to me, is superior. There was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You…

— M. Ward

My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

— Bebe Rexha

The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music…

— Andrew Bird

I like to hear songs which can lay it all on, songs which can look at the dark side as well as the bright…

— Jim Capaldi

I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it was just…

— James Vincent McMorrow

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me…

— Gavin Rossdale

'Through The Dark' - for sure, that's my favorite One Direction song.

— Anna Todd

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

— Martin Gore

I've tried writing darker, more serious songs, but they don't go anywhere. Everything revolves around the chorus for me.

— Shura