Despite Quote by Warren Zevon

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

— Barry Mann

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

— Neil Young

I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug…

— Macklemore

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

— Leif Garrett

I've written some really good songs that I love hungover because I wasn't overthinking it.

— Maren Morris

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

— Madonna Ciccone

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

— Smokey Robinson

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

— Robert Wyatt

I didn't write songs for a very long time.

— Martin Gore

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

— Craig Ferguson

I actually didn't do any writing of music while I was locked up. I wrote a book, but I didn't do any music.

— Da Brat

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not

— Tommy Shaw