Ian Axel Quotes

I wrote my first song when I was four, and I played it at my piano recital.

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.'

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

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

I was doing my own shows when I was 11 years old.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

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.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

When I was around 13 or 14, I started getting really into songwriting. And one day, I was rooting through my mum's old tapes and records, and I found 'Grace' by Jeff Buckley. I remember so vividly the first time I put it on. It blew my mind: his voice, the way he could play the guitar. I must have listened to the album over and over for weeks.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

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 wrote my first song when I was 6 years old. It was actually called 'Six Years Old.'

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.'

I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.

I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.

I think I was 15 the first time I wrote a good song.