Yael Naim
Related EL DEBARGE I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. ... KYLE DUNNIGAN We're always trying to outdo ourselves, trying to do better, trying to write better songs. I thi... JOSH DUN MITCH ALBOM DAVE DAVIES I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't. BONNIE TYLER KEHLANI RUPAUL GAVIN ROSSDALE 'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured o... CECE PENISTON COREY TAYLOR I love love songs, but sometimes it's okay to just be young and talk about something other than ... MAREN MORRIS Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I co... JAKE OWEN I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that? SIOBHAN FAHEY GEORGE HARRISON DON MCLEAN GREGG ALLMAN JARVIS COCKER GREGG ALLMAN I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's no... CHRIS STAPLETON MARY LAMBERT I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've... ALAN JACKSON RUSSELL SMITH I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them wer... DOUGLAS HODGE DAVE DAVIES EDDIE VAN HALEN I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I&#... JENNY LEWIS KATY PERRY DAVID FRIEDMAN I don't particularly put myself in a bad place just so that I can write. It's not like that at all. ... GLEN HANSARD ADELE NICHOLSON BAKER BRIE LARSON DAVID BOWIE I had some songs in that I had wrote, you know, priceless to me. DARREN BENITEZ I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes. JOANNA NEWSOM I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subserv... VALERIE JUNE It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as ... EMILY ROBISON ADRIAN BELEW I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em ... JONATHAN RICHMAN RAY LAMONTAGNE When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made th... ALOE BLACC RICKI-LEE COULTER My inspiration comes from God, so I always have to be open, kind of like being an antenna. I like to... BRENDA RUSSELL OCTAVIA BUTLER CARLY SIMON Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that th... LANGHORNE SLIM I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But someti... LAURA BELL BUNDY Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural ... ROGER WATERS As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying t... DAVID NAIL Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I ... EMILY RIOS TOM PETTY All I wanted to do was write songs, but all the things I wrote in Detroit, they put them out by diff... EDDIE FLOYD JASON MRAZ LAURA MARLING REBA MCENTIRE I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now ... KATE VOEGELE BEYONCE KNOWLES I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, bu... LAINIE KAZAN DAVID BOWIE AURORA Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons... RACHEL PLATTEN ANNE FRANK I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do th... GABRIELLE APLIN WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT Ever since the Dixie Chicks, the female perspective on country radio has been love songs. I love lov... MAREN MORRIS I think I initially started inventing characters in my songs because I didn't want to write dire... ADAM SCHLESINGER I am a songwriter at heart, and I feel like I would, in the future, write songs for other people. I ... DEAN GEYER LAURA MVULA The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship... BILLY RAY CYRUS KINA GRANNIS AIMEE MANN JOHN MELLENCAMP My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to see... BIRDY ELTON JOHN I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote s... BARRY MANN KAT GRAHAM I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs. BILLY SHERWOOD BILLY CORGAN I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can'... CAROLINE LEAVITT JONI MITCHELL KURT COBAIN I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I ... BETTY WHO CHANTAL SUTHERLAND I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do! JOHN PETERS In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective. KACEY MUSGRAVES BONNIE RAITT What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, t... JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE ALEX TURNER I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold ... TOM ODELL I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rh... JIAH KHAN YAEL NAIM CHELY WRIGHT I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage. ADAM LEVINE QUENTIN TARANTINO LUKE BRYAN I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. An... GUY CLARK LOUIS TOMLINSON BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't g... GARY LUCAS
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When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to expr... 
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them ... 
I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs. 
I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my... 
I've always idolized people who can write songs. 
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebod... 
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I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write son... 
I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people... 
I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on th... 
I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled ... 
I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the fl... 
I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes ... 
Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery o... 
I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs. 
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With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them. 
As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself. 
I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what... 
I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had t... 
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People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrat... 
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I... 
Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs. 
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