Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.
Ziggy Marley
All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.
Laura Marling
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a... →
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
Bruno Mars
I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.
I know a lot of artists say this, but it's hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a... →
I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.
It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the... →
Thomas Mars