Day Quote by Alison Sudol

When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.

— Anne-Marie

For a while, I thought I would maybe be a writer. But with music, I was such a nerd; I was really obsessive about…

— Perfume Genius

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to…

— Emeli Sande

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I…

— Frank Ocean

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as…

— Garth Greenwell

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

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up…

— Luke Bryan

Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just…

— Jason Reeves

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 was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

— Lisa Marie Presley

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.

— Bill Withers

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

— Joan Armatrading