Back Quote by John Waite

I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to…

— Natasha Bedingfield

I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me a song.'…

— Andrae Crouch

Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was…

— Jon Secada

People started noticing my singing on YouTube, and then I came to L.A., and I lived on a studio couch. I wrote songs every…

— Kim Petras

In the past, being young, I might have been standoffish to working with other songwriters.

— Raheem DeVaughn

I was mainly a songwriter; I really wasn't much of a performer.

— J. J. Cale

When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing…

— Floor Jansen

You spend so much time in a studio writing for other people, you forget you sing, you know?

— Nicola Roberts

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into…

— Jack White

I always was songwriting in high school, writing songs while I was supposed to be listening to the teacher.

— Kate Pierson

I was, like, in my mid-30s when I found out I could sing. I was doing karaoke and we were doing Bob Seger, 'Old…

— Jelly Roll

I remember starting out and covering songs.

— Bebe Rexha