Beatles Quote by M. Ward

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

When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.

— Anne-Marie

When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music.

— Goldie

When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience…

— Conor Oberst

I've always been a songwriter, whether it's singing or playing with a band or doing DJ sets, they're all different ways to deliver my…

— Matthew Koma

It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who…

— Johnny Flynn

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was…

— Kina Grannis

A lot of people start by learning other people's songs, but the idea of singing someone else's music didn't excite me. I just wanted…

— Shura

Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to…

— Andrew Ripp

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were…

— Wayne Kramer

I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of…

— P. J. Harvey

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going…

— Alison Goldfrapp