I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing…

I've always had an ear for languages and music so it's something I'm continually working on but it's fun.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the…

— Billy Joel

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

— Jake Shears

In my off-time, I do record. Once in a while, I'll just go into the studio if there's a really good song that I…

— Britney Spears

With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner…

— Michael Kiwanuka

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then…

— Tim Minchin

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices…

— Billy Joel

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

— Billy Joel

“I'd been writing for as long as I could remember, but once I read Otherworld, I'd stopped writing original stories to focus on fan…

— Allison van Diepen

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but…

— James Lipton

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

— Jessi Colter

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

— Jennifer Niven

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis