Bedroom Quote by CMAT

It's was all the internet. I started writing songs in high school, right about the time of the onset of Napster. I went to…

— Graham Colton

It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing…

— Lionel Richie

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

— Alicia Keys

I was someone who grew up obsessed with bands, how they were and how they treated one another, and how they treated fans.

— James Murphy

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance…

— Quincy Jones

Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of discovering music…

— Faris Badwan

I am an indie kid. I made no bones about the fact that I fell into DJing electronic music by accident, by a lucky…

— Erol Alkan

The fans have been an enormous influence on my career. Playing shows around the world and connecting with them is such a big inspiration…

— Hardwell

When I was 13, I started posting songs every week that I'd written. They weren't fantastic, but people connected to them in some way.…

— Tate McRae

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

— Dan Hawkins

I grew up listening to Teenage Fanclub and Eugenius. Scottish music cast a huge influence on me.

— Withered Hand

I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music is to…

— Carrie Brownstein