Before Quote by Mat Kearney

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

— Mat Kearney

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it…

— Lisa Marie Presley

I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and…

— Ann Powers

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

— Ivan Moody

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry…

— Jordin Sparks

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I…

— June Jordan

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

I always was songwriting in high school, writing songs while I was supposed to be listening to the teacher.

— Kate Pierson

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop -…

— Idina Menzel

I always enjoyed writing music; things pop into my head every day.

— Wayne Static

I was a math and science kid in school, but I ended up going the route of writing and music in college.

— Stephen J. Dubner

I did go through a phase of reading a lot of poetry and getting heavily into philosophy and ended up writing things that weren't…

— Katie Melua