Consciousness Quote by Donovan

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

— Banks

I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I started listening…

— Sufjan Stevens

I realized the more I made the music for myself, the more successful I was becoming.

— Daniel Powter

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

— Mabel

I grew up producing hip-hop music, actually. I was producing for my friends, who were all rappers in upstate New York, where I'm from.…

— Gus Dapperton

I was having a nice anonymous little time as a writer. I really was on the writer path. I was sort of minding my…

— LP

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 started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was out there…

— Gordon Lightfoot

The music suddenly became important enough for me to build my own sound studio and start to prepare songs to possibly put out into…

— Planningtorock

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how…

— Corey Smith

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

— Mary J. Blige