Skepta Quotes

I started writing songs at 17.

When you go on tour, you get so pumped up to make more music, learn more about yourself, and grow more musically. It always happens.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.

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

I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.

It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a song and it becomes stagnant or something that they're no longer interested in playing, and they leave it alone.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I started writing songs at age 15.

To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was spending years making records.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.

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

I always recommend to any player to always compose their own music. It's one of the best things you can do to find a road to your own style.

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.