Quote by Pete Wentz

I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on…

— Jason Mraz

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

— Billy Squier

I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.

— Autre Ne Veut

If you emote in your performances, people feel connected to you as an emotional person, because that's how we communicate. That doesn't mean people…

— Patricia Arquette

I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for them as…

— Gary Louris

I do definitely like to represent my own conversational style in the way I write songs purely because it's the most effective way of…

— CMAT

If I don't write a song, I only record it when it's played for me for the first time and I connect to it,…

— Bea Miller

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

— Cass McCombs

Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like…

— Madonna Ciccone

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go…

— Sting

Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed.

— Julia Stone

I don't like writing for myself to sing. I prefer to have other people's voices to dispose of in some way that they'll like…

— Matthew Friedberger