Best things Quote by Stephen Malkmus

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

— Richard Marx

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

— Vance Joy

I tend to get quite close to the songs because I've always been the main songwriter.

— Roland Orzabal

I think the more that I can find myself getting out of the way - like you said yourself - trying to get out…

— Kimbra

I think great songs can come from anywhere and you constantly have to be able to look out for those. I think a lot…

— Jason Aldean

If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

— Guy Clark

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The…

— Joan Baez

I always think it's more interesting to leave the context of those songs a little vague. Like, all these songs come from me, and…

— Alex G

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express…

— Annie Lennox

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

— Justin Hayward

The kind of head space that good songs come from is one of extreme emotion, extreme depth of feeling, which has an impact on…

— CMAT

Most of the time I don't even talk about any direct lineage of songs, because I feel like it just chains them down into…

— Regina Spektor