I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've… — Kaitlyn Dever Copy Share Image
At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
My idea of making time for myself is writing songs. I never stop beating myself up about trying to be productive, so… — Lydia Loveless Copy Share Image
Writing songs with Brian and performing them with Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and many other brilliant… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
When I first came to London I thought there'd be this amazing music scene, but I was quite let down by how… — James Righton Copy Share Image
I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
My job will always be to make myself look bad because I don't think enough people make themselves look bad in art,… — CMAT Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When I'm writing songs, my favourite thing to do is to try and rabbit-trail and go places I've never gone to before.… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
In Olympia, Washington, many of us were writing songs that were the equivalent of bloodletting: This is the sound a wound makes;… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing… — Graham Parker Copy Share Image
Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn't matter whether I'm stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across,… — Michael Marisi Ornstein Copy Share Image
I'm writing songs that connect to millions of people. And that happens for a reason. I don't really worry too much about… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a… — Bernie Leadon Copy Share Image
I love melody, and that's what I love about pop music. The words can become what they are through a special melody.… — Anna Ternheim Copy Share Image
I started writing songs in high school and always wanted to have a band, and eventually my creative endeavors developed into Theocracy.… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
I don't really premeditate what I write my songs about; you know, they just kind of happen, and I can't start writing… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years,… — Philip Selway Copy Share Image
I played acoustic guitar so intensely, for so long - for nine hours a day as a 10-year-old, writing songs through the… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
We've had musical stuff in the show [South Park] forever. That's mostly because Trey's a big musical fan, and he's a great… — Matt Stone Copy Share Image
For years we've been playing and writing songs that sound happy. And yet if you listen, the words are all like "My… — Robby Takac Copy Share Image
I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Me as an artist, I'm more notorious for writing songs that celebrate women, songs that are all about the positive element of… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
When you're writing songs for yourself, as all artists do, it's about 'me.' It's about what you feel and your emotions. You're… — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking… — James Young Copy Share Image
I was in musicals. and I was in the choir when I was younger. Before I started writing my own songs, I… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
Listening to songs is like eating and writing songs is like vomiting. You're putting a ton of stuff in, it combines in… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
I just love music. I love writing songs. It's not even a job; it's a gift. I'm waiting for someone to kick… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he… — Robin Thicke Copy Share Image
It's funny, because I had no intention of being in a band because I was so shy. But I loved playing music… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But… — Kyle Dunnigan Copy Share Image
It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Everybody used to be busy writing songs - great songs - that became hits. Now everybody's writing hits. Everybody's desperately writing a… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image