Anxious Quote by Nick Cave

I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell.

— Tony Oller

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's…

— Jeff Tweedy

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's…

— Ty Segall

The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like certain writers…

— Steven Tyler

I've started writing some songs very secretly.

— Monica Barbaro

There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you get that…

— Bonnie McKee

I write blatantly obvious songs with blatantly obvious details, and then I'm like NO! when they find out, I dunno what's wrong with me.…

— Taylor Swift

When you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about usually comes…

— Luke Pritchard

Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on…

— Kat Edmonson

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of…

— Banks

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises…

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Lykke Li