Knows Quote by Tony Joe White

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want…

— Diane Warren

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

— Lykke Li

There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you get that…

— Bonnie McKee

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is…

— Jesse Harris

When you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about usually comes…

— Luke Pritchard

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a…

— Vince Clarke

When you write, what's going on in your life shines through in the songs.

— Wayne Static

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

I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the…

— Ben Gibbard

The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may be going…

— Matthew Ramsey

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all…

— Emmylou Harris

You have to write songs for yourself and not worry about what other people are going to say or think about it. But ultimately…

— Ben Howard