I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

The day I heard Hank Williams for the first time, my life changed.

— Dion DiMucci

In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family,…

— Benjamin Booker

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too.…

— Otis Redding

Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to be a…

— Bob Dylan

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

Actually, I never tell for whom my songs are written. It's a kind of superstition! I started writing songs for not having the courage…

— Enrique Iglesias

[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she…

— George Michael

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

— Colbie Caillat

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

— Annie Lennox

When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising.

— Jack Conte

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

— Jake Shears

I just feel like it's easier to co-write sometimes, especially if you have chemistry with somebody. It kind of takes all the pressure off…

— Miranda Lambert

I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started…

— Kimbra

I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in my life…

— Jake Shears

If you watch home videos, at 4 years old, I was doing nothing but being the entertainer. Singing 'Boot Scootin' Boogie' in the living…

— Thomas Rhett