College Quote by Nicole Atkins

I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and…

— Benjamin Booker

Yes, I'm not from a musical family, so I borrowed my friend's guitar and started writing songs for my school music project. And I…

— Maisie Peters

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

— Gregory Harrison

I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college.

— Maggie Rogers

I didn't own a record player when I was younger. I just played every day after school and then started gigging around town. I…

— Michael McDonald

I learned classical guitar as a kid at about 7 or 8 years old. When I was about 14, I started dabbling in songwriting.…

— Passenger

I taught myself to play guitar and sing. I ended up writing a lot of music and had a band and was playing in…

— Daniel Lissing

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then…

— Tim Minchin

I've always written songs. I learned guitar when I was 9 or 10 years old and it sort of developed from there. When I…

— Declan McKenna

I've lived on my own since I was 13 and not been to school and brought a son up who's now 18 and run…

— Stella Vine

When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as…

— Sam Hunt

In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired.…

— Angel Olsen