Ever since I started writing music, I've wanted to know…

I started writing music around 20 years old.

— J.I.D

I sometimes think I should write a book. I've seen some things, you know, but it's all there in the songs.

— Dizzee Rascal

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

— Judy Collins

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I…

— M. Ward

I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I…

— Bo Burnham

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

— Julia Holter

I started out writing music for theatre and contemporary dance, so there has always been a dramatic and narrative element in my music.

— Johann Johannsson

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

— Laura Bell Bundy

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd…

— Irvine Welsh

After winning 'K-pop Star' and debuting as a singer, I had a team of people who helped me. But then I realized that to…

— Jamie Park

I started writing music in a season of my life where people were telling me I wasn't defined by mistakes, and God really loved…

— Mat Kearney

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the…

— Yungblud

I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody.

— Benjamin Clementine

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 couldn't wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn't actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I…

— Mitski