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I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I j... SIA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was l...
CLIFF BURTON
I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL
I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. Bu... AVICII
It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really ... KATHLEEN HANNA
Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbeliev... GARTH BROOKS I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I I come up with the ideas for my videos, and I write the lyrics and choreograph them, and I direct th...
TODRICK HALL I started seeing this stuff and said, 'Wow, what the heck is that?' I got closer and once I saw the ...
MAX DAVIS
I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm reall... J. D. SOUTHER I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stu...
PATRICK STUMP
I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I ... CAMILA CABELLO
By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write ... ELLIE GOULDING
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable m... JERRY GARCIA
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebod... GAVIN ROSSDALE When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm play...
ISAAC BROCK
I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it wa... GARTH BROOKS
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to othe...
BONNIE MCKEE I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, &...
FEFE DOBSON I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take...
HAYLEY KIYOKO
The writing process is more... it becomes a case of more like a diary for me. I mean, I write stuff ... CHRISTINA MILIAN
At art college, I started to do music and then painting and drawing - and that would have been my id... SEAN BEAN I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.
BILL WITHERS I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they r...
NINA HAGEN I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - y...
FANTASIA BARRINO I'm a ninja! I like swords and knives and stuff like that.
ISAIAH MUSTAFA My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't...
PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON
My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't... PARIS JACKSON I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' ...
TITUSS BURGESS I always sang around the house. My brother and I would sing songs like 'Take Me Out to the Ballg...
JEAN LOUISA KELLY
If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. BILLIE HOLIDAY
Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write.... TOMMY LEE I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was...
SKYLAR GREY
To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done a... BARBARA WALTERS I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I was...
CANDIS CAYNE When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book....
LINDA SUE PARK
I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn... CHANNING TATUM
Every album, I'm worried that I'm a dork and a fraud - 'What if I can't sing anymore... PINK
The music kind of possesses me when I sing. So whenever I start to sing on a show - I mean, first, I... JACKIE EVANCHO I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it reall...
DANIEL ALARCON When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little ...
SKYLAR GREY Yeah. Yeah, that was mine. Like I said, Tracii ( Guns ) gave me CD filled with music and I came up w...
LONDON LEGRAND I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give...
JONATHAN DAVIS
I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be ... K. D. LANG
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo... RICHARD FORD All I needed to do was sing the lyrics that had already been written. I don't know those guys; they ...
ADAM LEVINE When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainst...
LAUREN DAIGLE Sometimes I have an idea and I'll kind of write the idea down and sort of tinker away at it until I ...
ADAM CARROLL I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christ...
ANDY GRIFFITH It was fun. I was like wow, this is crazy. I never experienced anything like that. After I took all ...
ALEX STEPHESON
I believe that all men and women will be saved. PAT BUCKLEY
I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC bec... ERYKAH BADU
I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up wi... SAMMY HAGAR
I'm definitely not the type to have a sing-off. I'm not catty like that. I sing for the righ... NICOLE SCHERZINGER I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing so...
ELLE KING
When I realized I was depressed, then I started reading up about it. When I read that one in four pe... DEEPIKA PADUKONE I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. ...
ANDRA DAY I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when ...
CAT POWER Most of all, I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE
When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five ... ETTA JAMES
I just realized one day that I was so unhappy. And not only that, but I didn't even like the per... LINDSEY STIRLING You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a...
MAGGIE CAREY I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many...
KIM GORDON You know when I really realized like 'wow' what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a...
CHARLES KING At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I re...
MADISON MARLOW I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects lik...
FLORENCE WELCH In the end, what matters is this: I survived.
GAIL HONEYMAN I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'...
MARK BILLINGHAM I'm fascinated by people who have to reinvent themselves. I did it a few times - I was going to ...
LENNY ABRAHAMSON I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff f...
STEVE FORBERT I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are s...
CHARLES KING I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. ...
LESLEY GORE
But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected t... ANTHONY KIEDIS
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some ... PHILIP PULLMAN
When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like ... G-EAZY My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hou...
CARICE VAN HOUTEN
I'm up all night, and then next thing you know, it's the morning, and I'll sleep, like, ... CHRISTINA MILIAN We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.
TRAVIS BARKER Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sin...
JASON ALDEAN I'm not an Internet person that reads behind-the-scenes stuff. I see a trailer, and if it looks ...
EVAN GOLDBERG
It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singe... NAIMA ADEDAPO I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13...
ANEURIN BARNARD I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war...
M.I.A. I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and h...
ADAM RICH
Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a reco... GEORGE HARRISON I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's wri...
BILL CALLAHAN
When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat th... BEAR GRYLLS I was a dancer for about 14 years. I was a martial artist for the same amount of time. I quit that w...
FALK HENTSCHEL
I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen... FETTY WAP
You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud tha... MATHIAS RUST What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, t...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.
BERLIE DOHERTY I'm that girl that's a hardcore musician and loves to sing and write and play instruments bu...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE
I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained... AALIYAH
To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all m... BARBARA WALTERS I love James Taylor and Carole King, Joni Mitchell - this is, like, early '70s stuff. I love the...
JANE LYNCH
I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listen... J. COLE
I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou... BRIAN JACQUES
