Character Quote by Nick Cave

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

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

If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable.…

— Caitlin Rose

I've never been interested in diarising my life through song. So much stuff has been done before. So many people have brilliantly articulated the…

— Dan Smith

I love to write but it lays real heavy on your mind. Because I'd have to get so involved in ideas, I'd get lost…

— Porter Wagoner

The thing that bothers me is that it seems like all the sensitive stuff I write just goes unnoticed . . . the media…

— Tupac Shakur

As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously always doing.…

— Katie Stelmanis

I think the songs I was writing after Aeroplane were full of a lot of undealt-with pain that was just a little too big...…

— Jeff Mangum

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that…

— Matt Berry

I think to really write songs, you need empathy. You have to put yourself in other people's shoes.

— Ryan Bingham

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

— Anne-Marie

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

— Corey Smith