Alice Merton Quotes

I started writing music around 20 years old.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I'm a late bloomer in music.

The thing about me is that I'm very fortunate to have had the opportunities with Avenged Sevenfold in songwriting. I really think it's helped to bolster my guitar playing as well.

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called 'Fingers Crossed,' which is on SoundCloud.

I've been writing songs since my teens.

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

Melodies are important. I always kind of pride myself on my melodies.

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.