Expectations Quote by Don McLean

I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as a child,…

— Rufus Wainwright

I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.

— SonReal

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen -…

— Gwen Stefani

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because…

— David Bowie

I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a decent song,…

— Johan Renck

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was…

— Gary Numan

There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were…

— Cheryl James

I think I can pinpoint the moment when my first band recorded, when I was 14 and 15 years old. I always enjoyed writing…

— John Congleton

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music.…

— Liz Phair

Being in a band was so fun and exciting, but I was just kind of focusing more on performance and wasn't really writing the…

— Domino Kirke

I was pretty spoiled growing up, creatively and artistically; we were exposed to a lot of different things. I remember watching my brother's friends…

— Stephen Bruner

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be…

— Jason Mraz