Lost Quote by Stephan Jenkins

Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually…

— Jack Johnson

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.

— Martha Wainwright

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few…

— Jimi Hendrix

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

— Austin Carlile

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

— Satyajit Ray

I like to write music that I feel like I would listen to. It's like my interpretation of what I want to hear.

— Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

— Janet Jackson

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

— Paolo Nutini

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's…

— Jeff Tweedy

I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.

— Mike Stoller

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

— Sarah McLachlan

There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.

— Carly Rae Jepsen