Body Quote by Porter Robinson

I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have one. Everything…

— Snoh Aalegra

All songwriters are known as 'topliners' because the vocal goes on top of the track.

— Justin Tranter

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

— Sky Ferreira

When people hear sing-songy melodies, they think the lyrics will be nice, too. I guess there's a depressing or psychotic side to my personality…

— Kim Shattuck

One of the big songwriting things for me has always been: always think what you do sucks. Because the second you stop believing that,…

— Julian Casablancas

I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else.

— Taylor Goldsmith

Sometimes, you sit down to write a song, you don't realize what it's going to mean to somebody other than yourself.

— Luke Combs

As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes…

— Nate Ruess

I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The…

— Mose Allison

You have to be careful not to make music something you don't want to do. Which happens. I've gotten off the road and been…

— Shawn Mendes

When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then…

— Luke Bryan

Sometimes people come up and say, "You have this line in this song and it meant a lot to me." You don't always remember…

— Craig Finn