“You can be a little bit lost in your own world and be doing an amazing thing and not realize it, or think something’s unbelievable and it’s garbage.”— Chris Cornell, salon.com
“If I’m writing music for music, kind of any idea I have is valid, and it’s about me and whatever I’m thinking or feeling.”— Chris Cornell, alternativenation.net
“We were not a band that would sit down and discuss a direction of an album before we started writing. We just focused on song after song, and, as we would arrange them and learn more, the album slowly took shape.”— Chris Cornell, rollingstone.com
“A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in.”— Freddie Mercury, theguardian.com
“Something that we consciously recognized when we were writing the Immortalized album was that there’s no longer any reason for us to have any creative or stylistic limitations of any kind. This track and the success that it has seen is only further proof and validation of that. I’m not saying that a…”— David Draiman, fuse.tv
“Well Son, here is your dear Dad, with a letter for you, and pray to God, it will find you, in perfect health…Junior keep up the way you are doing, and don’t let nothing get you down. When you get the blues, Sonny, put on one of the records with songs I wrote you about to Ma, to you, which I sure go…”— Al Capone, csmonitor.com
“A song is a short story. It might have been my buddy Harlan Howard, a writer I met in Nashville in the sixties, who first said a song ain't nothing but three chords and the truth. Well, songs come easy to me. I've written hundreds of them. I see them as little stories that fall out of our lives and…”— Willie Nelson, npr.org
“It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.”— Willie Nelson, en.wikiquote.org
“I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are. You know, like writing the word ‘over’ on the bottom of a letter. As if someone's just going to throw the letter away without trying to turn it over first! Or, when you tast…”— Ellen Degeneres, goodhousekeeping.com
“I don’t write about anything in particular, I write very subconsciously.”— Ian Curtis, theguardian.com