Before Quote by Chino Moreno

I wanted to make a record with a twist. I wanted to prove that you could make a record that concentrated on song craft…

— Stella Soleil

When I first got my record deal, I was like, 'I just want to sing,' and I never put much thought into what really…

— Hilary Duff

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

— Kenneth Edmonds

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day…

— Adam Goldberg

I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to…

— Natasha Bedingfield

I wanted to sing about things that moved me and experiences I had collected throughout life.

— Alice Merton

I always wanted to be a songwriter, and it took a while.

— Shawn Colvin

I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.

— Kieran Hebden

I started writing songs later in life because I just couldn't commit to it before.

— Perfume Genius

With pretty much everything that I've done, in terms of going from being a songwriter and producer for other artists to doing my stuff,…

— Lauv

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

— Leif Garrett

My mind was so geared towards being a performing artist, singing all these classical pieces, but the sense of loneliness I got when I…

— Khalid