Afraid Quote by Trent Reznor

When I wrote my debut album I was around 17, I didn't really know what my sound was or who I was and what…

— Nina Nesbitt

When I made the first album, I was 24, and at that age, you have nothing to say. I just played the music I…

— Ry Cooder

I didn't start singing and writing songs properly until I was 19.

— Tom Walker

Everyone told me I could sing from about the age of ten. My mum was always telling me. But I was so shy, I…

— Dionne Bromfield

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

— Colbie Caillat

The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then…

— Robert Smith

I feel like, if you're writing the same songs you were writing when you were 17 in your 30s, something's wrong. As a grown…

— Benji Madden

I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come…

— Juliette Lewis

I don't think I wrote my first song until I was 25. And then everything I wrote ended up becoming my first album. I…

— Perfume Genius

I was meant to make music in my soul way younger than I did. I was just scared because I knew it would take…

— Juliette Lewis

I didn't even listen to any music until I was 19, really. I just wanted to be famous. But I didn't say it to…

— Marina and the Diamonds

When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were…

— Sabrina Claudio