Before Quote by Noel Redding

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

— Noel Redding

As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played.…

— Jonny Greenwood

Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.

— Matt Skiba

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into…

— Jack White

We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.

— Mike Lowry

I remember when I would write a song as a kid, I would also write out on paper what the drums would do, what…

— Lights

Everybody played music and sang songs. It was real close, like a family. So you just got up there and had fun.

— Kings Of Leon

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and…

— Thurston Moore

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

— John Mayer

The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

— Ethan Hawke

I only started writing in the latter days of Spandau Ballet. I didnt know I could write because all had our roles within the…

— Tony Hadley

When I started, I was very unsure of who I was. There were a lot of things in the songs that I didn't realize…

— Melanie Martinez