Firsts Quote by Lady Sovereign

Lyrics came quite easy early on in my career. But I always wanted to push it further and stand out a bit more. We…

— Kano

I just wanted to make music, and grime wasn't exactly the path that I took naturally. It was something that was put on me…

— Lady Sovereign

I played around with GarageBand before, but I'd never actually made a proper song. So it was getting into the studio with him where…

— Benee

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

— Abbie Cornish

Finally I started really opening up as a songwriter and an interpreter and taking songs from all kind of genres and stripping them down…

— Lizz Wright

I started writing when I was, like, eleven. We couldn't afford private lessons, so I had to teach myself how to sing through recording…

— Keiynan Lonsdale

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.

— Johnny Flynn

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

— Lewis Capaldi

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

— Chris Carmack

I've been writing songs since my teens.

— Debra Stephenson

The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just…

— Zachary Cole Smith

When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.

— Perfume Genius