Olivia d'Abo Quotes

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

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

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 started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I've always idolized people who can write songs.

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

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

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

I like making songs up. Whether or not they're great songs or good songs, whatever. It's something I've always done, and I definitely feel like I've gotten better at it.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

I wrote my first song, called Spectator,' when I was 11.

I'm always writing music.

I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.

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

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

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

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.

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