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I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

— Diane Warren

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✓Similar Perspectives

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is about something that you've done.

— Jesse Harris

I tend to write songs that are about something pretty specific. A lot of them tell some kind of little made-up story.

— Adam Schlesinger

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

— Lykke Li

I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell.

— Tony Oller

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

— Ty Segall

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

— Conor Oberst

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

— Beyonce Knowles

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

— David Allan Coe

I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.

— Valerie June

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I chose to. I have been asked to write songs about specific things, and I've always been able to come up with the goods.

— Loudon Wainwright III