Complicated Quote by M. Ward

I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something that I was going to try desperately to…

— Laura Mvula

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I…

— M. Ward

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for…

— Lisa Marie Presley

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

Vocals are not central to what I do, and I've never liked singing live. I've always been more inspired by rhythm, texture, harmony than…

— Laurel Halo

I'm not singing anymore; that is why I am so pleased to be writing. My daughter said, "You just found a different way of…

— Julie Andrews

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

Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences.

— Lucy Dacus

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

It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling…

— Ryan Newman

Whenever I write anything, I do sing to it, to try and make sure it's interesting or compelling to sing to. I've gotten in…

— Aaron Dessner

I started writing more with my voice in mind.

— Lucinda Williams