Convincing Quote by Nick Cave

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

— St. Lucia

I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my…

— Rivers Cuomo

I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

— Brett Dennen

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just…

— Van Morrison

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

If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in…

— Charlie Daniels

When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write…

— Sia

I've never conceptualized much of what I write about. Maybe, once I'm onto something, I'll conceptualize a finished record. I want the songs to…

— Conor Oberst

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

— Lykke Li

Sometimes when you start writing a song, you dont know where theyre going to lead you. You just kind of follow the ideas that…

— Mike Campbell

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

— James Taylor

I'm mostly inspired by relationships and things that are going on in my everyday life. It's hard for me to write songs about things…

— Meiko