Crafts Quote by PJ Harvey

When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music.

— Goldie

Writing a song is about inhabiting a specific frame of mind and conjuring a mood, a character, an entire vision.

— The-Dream

For people who write songs, it's a gift you're given. You become good at the craft, but you're given the gift.

— Chris Martin

I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from "A Time…

— Stevie Wonder

Songwriting is writing about the human experience.

— Tyler Childers

I write songs like someone would write a really tiny book. I think it's the same thing. It's building this world, painting it and…

— Maisie Peters

You kind of have to celebrate the moment that you get to create something that you love that falls into the parameters of a…

— Tyler Joseph

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

— Van Morrison

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have…

— Norah Jones

It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to tell. It…

— Manika

The frame is the reward of the artist.

— Edgar Degas

I love the idea that you can create a world through song.

— Jon Foreman