Awareness Quote by Juliana Hatfield

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore…

— Neil Young

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

When I started making music, I made music in a very commercial space and I didn't have room to really explore things on my…

— Robyn

I think when I first started discovering I could write songs, I was so naive. And it was after I got broken up with…

— Gwen Stefani

I didn't start writing songs, honestly, until I started making my album. I was always doing poetry, but I never thought I could write…

— Alessia Cara

For years, I wrote songs to try to get cuts or try to have hits or try to appease a label or to be…

— Walker Hayes

I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening and I…

— Emily Lazar

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

What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about…

— Curtis Jones

Sometimes to move forward you have to let go. I figured that out through opening myself up, allowing people into my creative process. It…

— Ingrid Michaelson

I started making music by myself and figuring all of that on my own.

— Kali Uchis

When I was younger, I had conversations with friends about wanting to create something different. Every young musician probably thinks that. But it's difficult…

— FKA twigs