Always Quote by Frank Ocean

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.

— Frank Ocean

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than…

— Gayl Jones

When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.

— Kelsea Ballerini

I mean, I knew that one day I'd do something writing-oriented as soon as I started writing. But when I started singing, I was…

— Alison Sudol

Writing was something I always did but that turned into singing and rapping. That something that came out of my writing.

— Dreezy

I started writting songs when I was really little because there were things I could say through songs that I couldn't verbalize any other…

— Alanis Morissette

I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.

— Lucy Dacus

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

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the…

— Yungblud

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

— Lisa Marie Presley

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.

— Bill Withers

I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing…

— DJ Ashba