Age Quote by PJ Harvey

I started songwriting at around age 12, and that was it. I never really stopped. Nothing else ever really crossed my mind. It's truly…

— Lara Fabian

I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very…

— Ray LaMontagne

Listening closely to songs these days, there's a lot of lazy songwriting where people get away with it. I don't want to be too…

— Steve Gunn

I started quite late. I only discovered that I could write a song when I was, like, 17... some musicians, they're starting out, writing…

— Alice Merton

In the past, being young, I might have been standoffish to working with other songwriters.

— Raheem DeVaughn

I'm pretty self-conscious, so I tend to work in a way where I say what I need to say and get out rather than…

— Neko Case

All I knew was I just wanted to make music, I wasn't thinking about label politics or what that means. It was really much…

— Lloyd

I was drawn to music from a super early age. At school, my ego co-opted it to some degree and I would use it…

— Jon Hopkins

I've never seen myself as a strictly political songwriter in a sense, but I think in the world that we live in, and with…

— Declan McKenna

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

Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it.…

— Keith Richards

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be…

— Jason Mraz