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I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was...
SKYLAR GREY I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a wri...
LUKE COMBS![]()
And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrot...
STEVIE NICKS![]()
Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of ...
ELLIE GOULDING I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just ...
MATT MCGORRY![]()
Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first son...
BEN HOPKINS Art is never finished, only abandoned.
, (MAYBE) My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my p...
KATE VOEGELE![]()
Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever ...
SUSANNA KAYSEN![]()
I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, t...
JACKIE EVANCHO![]()
I had an amazing feeling when i finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I like things that are difficult, physically and mentally, ... Things that are really challenging, t...
ED VIESTURS Going there is paying your dues. You always have to pay your dues. . . . You've just got to do it. M...
CARLOS MENCIA No matter how figured out I think I have it I'm still learning. Whether it be through great experien...
BREANNA CASELLA It's sad, it really is sad. Maybe sooner or later, the Bears will get lucky and find a quarterback.
DAN HAMPTON I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've...
ALAN JACKSON![]()
I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
BETH DITTO![]()
Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I&...
DELTA GOODREM It really came as a surprise. I'm really happy and the award really means a lot to me. For a moment,...
JAY CHOU I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced...
PIXIE LOTT Its amazing, I cant ask for anything more as a birthday gift, ... Ive wanted to win a big race like ...
BOBBY BUTLER I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs.
GEORGE STROUMBOULOPOULOS It was really hard for me. I've always loved animals and I'd like to think there were people around ...
ASHLEY KUSCHEL![]()
When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things ...
ANI DIFRANCO Maybe it was our shared trauma, or maybe it was a combination of things, but I felt warmth emenate f...
THERESA BRAUN![]()
Cool,” I said. “You can IM with the Council from campus. Maybe you can command people to do your...
RICHELLE MEAD Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows? I know that he is really happy that I am playing with Boston right now.
INFIELDER ENRIQUE WILSON Did I really read every single book in the school? My mother maintains I did. Maybe I just told the ...
ANDY MILLER Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking ...
NOLAN SOTILLO If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself...
JUDY COLLINS I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Ent...
MARY HART![]()
I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writi...
STEVIE WONDER![]()
I think my head's a minefield strewn with triggers, and maybe if I survive each explosion, what emer...
ANN AGUIRRE It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate ...
CLINTON SPARKS I've written more songs than ever before on this record. (There are) maybe 25 songs (that) we've got...
GLENN HUGHES![]()
I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are ...
VICTORIA JUSTICE![]()
Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the B...
SHAWN AMOS![]()
I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect...
JAMES CAMERON With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be ...
J. TILLMAN When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emot...
VANCE JOY![]()
My goal is to put out an album with every song being an original composition of mine. I want the cre...
GREGG ALLMAN![]()
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blos...
BECKY G![]()
Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in thr...
STURGILL SIMPSON It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... May...
ELIZABETH REASER People have been talking about it for a while, and it feels good to get it over with and maybe I can...
LIZ HONEGGER![]()
Maybe he didn’t really encourage me to do things, but he didn’t prevent me from doing them eithe...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. Tha...
SHARON CREECH![]()
Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was reall...
ELI ROTH![]()
I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see...
RIVERS CUOMO![]()
If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm ...
ASTRO I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've e...
MALCOLM WILSON I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't conv...
PRITAM CHAKRABORTY I just wouldn’t want to hook up with a guy unless I really, really like him, and in my
experi...
DARIA SNADOWSKY It was by far my best round this summer, maybe ever under the circumstances. I really made some long...
EDOARDO MOLINARI When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. T...
JOHN LURIE I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted ima...
LAURA WADE![]()
I really should do something with my life... maybe tomorrow.
ANONYMOUS![]()
I really enjoyed writing the first book. And since then it's been great. I've written every word of ...
MARIO BATALI![]()
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I ad...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ 'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was re...
LUIS FONSI![]()
Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's...
AURORA![]()
It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't sto...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
Jesus," Kerensky said, looking around. "You people. I have one of the most incredible experiences I'...
JOHN SCALZI![]()
I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness o...
MARK RUFFALO![]()
That song is personal only in that it's about home, ... I really wanted to find a song about Georgia...
TRISHA YEARWOOD![]()
Im not a politician and my other habits are good. Ive no enemys to reward, nor friends to sponge. Bu...
ARTEMUS WARD![]()
My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationship...
MIKE MILLS I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to othe...
BONNIE MCKEE I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two so...
NEIL YOUNG I use songs as weapons. I've written some really good, nasty songs about people I've been involved w...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories...
JIM COLE![]()
I don't think I've ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, '...
JERRY GARCIA![]()
I don't want to have one hit, one song of the summer, and then have me disappear forever. I real...
ALESSIA CARA![]()
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.![]()
I think I'm dumb
or maybe just happy
think I'm just happy...
KURT COBAIN![]()
I think I'm dumb
or maybe just happy
think I'm just happy...
KURT COBAIN![]()
Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite game...
KINA GRANNIS Wesley was really the only thing getting me through those weeks. Some part of me was appalled at mys...
KODY KEPLINGER![]()
I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; ju...
LUCINDA WILLIAMS Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'...
PETE BEST![]()
I was one of those weird kids who didn't really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would cal...
ALESSIA CARA![]()
If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices...
EDDIE VEDDER We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are...
JASON ALDEAN I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything.
Maybe I should stop wri...
ELIZABETH EULBERG![]()
It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than ...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN![]()
A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are...
COREY TAYLOR![]()
I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I fe...
ORNETTE COLEMAN The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded ...
ADAM GOLDBERG you really think im happy what just because i smile haha thats a joke is the devil good just because...
AMBER FAITH HUN![]()
The video's kinda sad ... but it's a sad song, so the video obviously has to follow that. But it end...
KELLY CLARKSON It was tough. I couldn't really find my rhythm. Maybe I was thinking about my ankle.
HEDO TURKOGLU You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up...
ONE DIRECTION I do a bit of writing and I have been putting together some songs for maybe a possible release,
JASON DONOVAN I really would like to spare people from all this. I just loved my dogs with my heart and soul. Tomo...
ANN BLISS Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.
GLENDA MILLARD![]()
I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written.
DELILAH![]()
I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It&#...
STURGILL SIMPSON I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.
BILLY SHERWOOD
SKYLAR GREY I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a wri...
LUKE COMBS
And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrot... STEVIE NICKS
Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of ... ELLIE GOULDING I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just ...
MATT MCGORRY
Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first son... BEN HOPKINS Art is never finished, only abandoned.
, (MAYBE) My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my p...
KATE VOEGELE
Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever ... SUSANNA KAYSEN
I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, t... JACKIE EVANCHO
I had an amazing feeling when i finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I like things that are difficult, physically and mentally, ... Things that are really challenging, t...
ED VIESTURS Going there is paying your dues. You always have to pay your dues. . . . You've just got to do it. M...
CARLOS MENCIA No matter how figured out I think I have it I'm still learning. Whether it be through great experien...
BREANNA CASELLA It's sad, it really is sad. Maybe sooner or later, the Bears will get lucky and find a quarterback.
DAN HAMPTON I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've...
ALAN JACKSON
I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad. BETH DITTO
Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I&... DELTA GOODREM It really came as a surprise. I'm really happy and the award really means a lot to me. For a moment,...
JAY CHOU I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced...
PIXIE LOTT Its amazing, I cant ask for anything more as a birthday gift, ... Ive wanted to win a big race like ...
BOBBY BUTLER I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs.
GEORGE STROUMBOULOPOULOS It was really hard for me. I've always loved animals and I'd like to think there were people around ...
ASHLEY KUSCHEL
When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things ... ANI DIFRANCO Maybe it was our shared trauma, or maybe it was a combination of things, but I felt warmth emenate f...
THERESA BRAUN
Cool,” I said. “You can IM with the Council from campus. Maybe you can command people to do your... RICHELLE MEAD Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows? I know that he is really happy that I am playing with Boston right now.
INFIELDER ENRIQUE WILSON Did I really read every single book in the school? My mother maintains I did. Maybe I just told the ...
ANDY MILLER Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking ...
NOLAN SOTILLO If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself...
JUDY COLLINS I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Ent...
MARY HART
I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writi... STEVIE WONDER
I think my head's a minefield strewn with triggers, and maybe if I survive each explosion, what emer... ANN AGUIRRE It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate ...
CLINTON SPARKS I've written more songs than ever before on this record. (There are) maybe 25 songs (that) we've got...
GLENN HUGHES
I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are ... VICTORIA JUSTICE
Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the B... SHAWN AMOS
I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect... JAMES CAMERON With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be ...
J. TILLMAN When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emot...
VANCE JOY
My goal is to put out an album with every song being an original composition of mine. I want the cre... GREGG ALLMAN
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blos... BECKY G
Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in thr... STURGILL SIMPSON It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... May...
ELIZABETH REASER People have been talking about it for a while, and it feels good to get it over with and maybe I can...
LIZ HONEGGER
Maybe he didn’t really encourage me to do things, but he didn’t prevent me from doing them eithe... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. Tha...
SHARON CREECH
Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was reall... ELI ROTH
I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see... RIVERS CUOMO
If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm ... ASTRO I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've e...
MALCOLM WILSON I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't conv...
PRITAM CHAKRABORTY I just wouldn’t want to hook up with a guy unless I really, really like him, and in my
experi...
DARIA SNADOWSKY It was by far my best round this summer, maybe ever under the circumstances. I really made some long...
EDOARDO MOLINARI When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. T...
JOHN LURIE I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted ima...
LAURA WADE
I really should do something with my life... maybe tomorrow. ANONYMOUS
I really enjoyed writing the first book. And since then it's been great. I've written every word of ... MARIO BATALI
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I ad... NAGUIB MAHFOUZ 'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was re...
LUIS FONSI
Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's... AURORA
It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't sto... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Jesus," Kerensky said, looking around. "You people. I have one of the most incredible experiences I'... JOHN SCALZI
I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness o... MARK RUFFALO
That song is personal only in that it's about home, ... I really wanted to find a song about Georgia... TRISHA YEARWOOD
Im not a politician and my other habits are good. Ive no enemys to reward, nor friends to sponge. Bu... ARTEMUS WARD
My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationship... MIKE MILLS I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to othe...
BONNIE MCKEE I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two so...
NEIL YOUNG I use songs as weapons. I've written some really good, nasty songs about people I've been involved w...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories...
JIM COLE
I don't think I've ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, '... JERRY GARCIA
I don't want to have one hit, one song of the summer, and then have me disappear forever. I real... ALESSIA CARA
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
I think I'm dumb or maybe just happy
think I'm just happy...
KURT COBAIN
I think I'm dumbor maybe just happy
think I'm just happy...
KURT COBAIN
Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite game... KINA GRANNIS Wesley was really the only thing getting me through those weeks. Some part of me was appalled at mys...
KODY KEPLINGER
I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; ju... LUCINDA WILLIAMS Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'...
PETE BEST
I was one of those weird kids who didn't really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would cal... ALESSIA CARA
If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices... EDDIE VEDDER We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are...
JASON ALDEAN I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything.
Maybe I should stop wri...
ELIZABETH EULBERG
It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than ... GABRIELLE ZEVIN
A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are... COREY TAYLOR
I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I fe... ORNETTE COLEMAN The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded ...
ADAM GOLDBERG you really think im happy what just because i smile haha thats a joke is the devil good just because...
AMBER FAITH HUN
The video's kinda sad ... but it's a sad song, so the video obviously has to follow that. But it end... KELLY CLARKSON It was tough. I couldn't really find my rhythm. Maybe I was thinking about my ankle.
HEDO TURKOGLU You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up...
ONE DIRECTION I do a bit of writing and I have been putting together some songs for maybe a possible release,
JASON DONOVAN I really would like to spare people from all this. I just loved my dogs with my heart and soul. Tomo...
ANN BLISS Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.
GLENDA MILLARD
I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written. DELILAH
I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It&#... STURGILL SIMPSON I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.
BILLY SHERWOOD
