Always Quote by Washed Out

Whenever I write songs, it's my outlet for a certain feeling. I just don't as often feel compelled to write when I'm not really…

— Phoebe Bridgers

I write songs when I'm in the depths of my emotions.

— Olivia Rodrigo

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'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when…

— Erin Morgenstern

I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made…

— Pixie Lott

I think every song is very different; some of them are sad and some aren't. But I do like to pull inspiration from whatever…

— Benson Boone

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I don't really know what emotions are going to come out in songs when I'm writing them until I step back and listen to…

— Borns

I write songs on a course of time that's comfortable for me. I would probably never write a song from start to finish in…

— James Vincent McMorrow

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am.…

— Taylor Swift

I write emotional music.

— Les Baxter

I do experience something pretty commonly with every song; there's some moment where it clicks into its own life with its own emotional impact…

— Mirah