Always Quote by Nick Cave

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

There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

— Ken Hill

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a…

— Todd Rundgren

Writing can flow out when I'm feeling something strongly, whether that's joy, pain, fear, desire or anything else. The challenge is actually later, in…

— Anoushka Shankar

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

Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story.

— Grace Potter

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the…

— Marilyn Manson

I think every song is very different; some of them are sad and some aren't. But I do like to pull inspiration from whatever…

— Benson Boone

When I sit down to write a song, I try to think about how I want it to feel and try to be very…

— Noah Kahan

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

Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."

— Avey Tare