American Quote by Don McLean

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know…

— Lana Del Rey

I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang…

— Jessye Norman

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I…

— Heather Morris

I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in my life…

— Jake Shears

It wasn't like I told my family, 'I want to be a singer. I want to be a writer. I want to be a…

— Maisie Peters

That was what I always wanted to do for my whole life, to write music in the service of telling stories and communicating ideas…

— Stephen Schwartz

I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And…

— Wallace Shawn

I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter.…

— Brett Dennen

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever…

— Johnny Vegas

I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass. I would…

— Chuck Barris

The whole having records and selling records and being on TV, that was something that I didn't ever think would be for me. I…

— Phil Collins

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases…

— Kazuo Ishiguro