Enough Quote by Amy Macdonald

I took a lot time to do the first album, and I was really happy about that album. I co-wrote the songs and it…

— Tove Styrke

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five…

— Bruce Cockburn

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of…

— Gregory Harrison

I had an opportunity to make an album - that was a dream come true. I had to make sure that I could do…

— Michael Kiwanuka

The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with confidence. The more confidence you…

— Bat for Lashes

Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take…

— Frank Iero

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write…

— Zac Efron

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

— James Mercer

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I…

— Jack Irons

I always did music privately as a hobby, I think partly because I was nervous to do it in front of other people.

— Alessia Cara

I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people…

— Alan Licht

My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but…

— Yael Naim