Bonnie McKee Quotes

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.

It's so fun to make up stories, but I find that the songs that I'm most proud of came from a real thing in my life - 'Peter Pan' being one of those.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.

I wrote my first song at the age of 9 and of course it didn't make any sense.

I wrote my first song when I was about eight. It was about putting a diaper on a chicken!

I've always, always, always listened to music since I was, like, 7 years old and made up stories in my head based on what I was hearing.

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 hear a good song and I start thinking, 'Oh shoot. You know there's a story that can be told to this,' and whatnot.

The very first song I ever wrote was called 'I See Between The Trees,' when I was 9. It was really bad.

I remember the first time I ever wrote down a song was when I was 6. I was at my friend Emma's house, and we wrote a song called 'Girls' Rules.'

I wouldn't want to write a song in a pair of sneakers. I think it would be a horrible song.

I really don't do concept stuff very well. If I'm sitting thinking about what kind of song I want to write, within a few minutes, I'm kind of bored. It's just a personal thing for me.

I've been writing since I was 11. But I don't write with a pen, I just sing at the piano with one eye shut like a pirate.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.