Come Quote by O. T. Genasis

I really just wanted to put out songs with people that I was rocking with.

— Roddy Ricch

I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there.

— Frank Iero

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on…

— Matthew Sweet

I wanted to make music for my people that I grew up with in my neighborhood. That's kind of the long and the short…

— Scarface

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music.…

— Liz Phair

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings…

— Neil Diamond

In the earlier days I did most of the song writing by myself, and I got to a place in my life where I…

— Jason Wade

I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.

— SonReal

And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the…

— Bruce Springsteen

There's no way anyone's going to understand my own personal experiences, where the songs came from, because they're mine. But I was very conscious…

— Conor O'Brien

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers…

— Aoife O'Donovan

Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs.…

— Elvis Costello