After Quote by Robert Smith

I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of those people…

— Paul Weller

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough…

— Jarvis Cocker

Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years ago. Hopefully,…

— Dean Wareham

All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you've…

— Lou Barlow

I've been writing songs since my teens.

— Debra Stephenson

I'm not one of those people who write all the time. Sometimes I'll go several months without writing anything. I'll sometimes second guess myself…

— Warren Haynes

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

— Sondre Lerche

I've been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school. I guess…

— Zooey Deschanel

Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in…

— Neil Diamond

When you're younger and a little more innocent, you write whatever [lyrics] comes naturally. But as you get used to writing you try to…

— Steve "Lips" Kudlow

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

— Alanis Morissette

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

— Justin Hayward