High school Quote by Kate Pierson

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

We had musical instruments at home, so when I wasn't in school, I would sing and write all the time.

— Griff

When I was in high school, I was writing all the time, it was such good practice. But I wasn't writing my best songs.

— Gracie Abrams

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

I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.

— Benmont Tench

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

— Mose Allison

I was teaching myself notes from three and then by seven I'd figured out how to play some chords, and at school I used…

— Ella Henderson

I got into songwriting because I'm not very good at communicating sometimes, just my true words, so music was always my way of expressing…

— LIZ

When I was about 11 years old, I wrote a song with my dad. Then in high school I started more writing.

— Gabby Barrett

I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.

— Jakob Dylan

8th grade I started writing my own songs. They weren't good songs or anything, but it was always the song writing aspect of things…

— William Clark Green