If you’ve ever written a set of lyrics or a poem, you’ve probably imagined how it might sound as a song. But turning words ...

As for Van Morrison, he begins one lyric found in “Lit Up Inside & Keep ’Er Lit: The Collected Lyrics” with “Rave on, John Donne” and goes on to refer to Kahlil Gibran, Omar Khayyam, Walt Whitman and ...

The following article comes from Writing Hit Songs by Jimmy Kachulis, one of more than 250 courses available from Berklee Online. Founded in 2002, Berklee Online is the premier innovator and largest ...

The four-time Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and producer speaks with The Hollywood Reporter about his creative process and no. 1 songwriting essential: "I take it everywhere I go." By Erin ...

John Prine wrote the lyrics to “Hello In There” while delivering the mail on his postman route. Later, he found the chords and melody to go along with the words. John Legend prefers to write the ...

Rodney Alejandro, a songwriting professor at the Berklee College of Music, took WBZ-TV's Mike Sullivan through the creative process of writing a hit song. Ukraine's Zelenskiy says there is now a good ...

"But I think we work really well under pressure in some cases, in most cases." "I'm still trying to figure that out," he confessed. "I think that's the eternal [mystery] because, with writing, there's ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. As a young artist and performer, I am always working in the so-called ...

Thirty Seconds To Mars released the excellent "Stuck," their first song in five years, this past week. Frontman Jared Leto admits sharing a new single can be very stressful, "Terrible," he says ...