Classic Quote by Regina Spektor

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

— Taylor Swift

I'm so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music.

— Taylor Swift

You should write songs about what you feel, but you can't write in such a way like it's a diary entry. You should write…

— Lights

I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be…

— Lyle Lovett

My writing was very much like my diary, and I just put it out there to put it out there because I didn't really…

— Tate McRae

I write in a diary every night to collect my thoughts. It's very therapeutic to songwrite, because it's the same thing.

— Ella Mai

For me, my music has always been like an open diary.

— Wade Bowen

I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or…

— Sara Bareilles

I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into…

— Jay Watson

I don't want to be singing my diary.

— Norah Jones

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem…

— Tom Waits

The weirdest place I have ever written a song is probably in an airport, and I got an idea so fast that I just…

— Taylor Swift