Composer Quote by Warren Zevon

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel…

— Amy Winehouse

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

— Austin Carlile

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

— Paul McCartney

I think that's the only way I know how to write songs, is to think about my life, and also to think about the…

— Rostam Batmanglij

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

— Lykke Li

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

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of…

— Banks

I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically. I say…

— Charli XCX

I spend an awful lot of time thinking about stuff that's happened, but I don't want to be someone who's only writing songs because…

— Jacob Anderson

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 actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been…

— Shane McCrae

I grew up listening to topical music - songs that were about things. So when I write songs, a lot of the time, they're…

— Santigold