Tom Petty Quotes

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

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

I started writing songs when I was eight.

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

I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.

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

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

I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.

I just know that I love to write songs, and I have for a long time.

I started writing songs at age 15.

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

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

I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.

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.

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 started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

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.

Sometimes, I sit with my guitar and start playing... something or the other pops into my head... Basically, I write whatever that comes to my mind. I've written a lot of songs, but they are lying in my cupboard... I mean to do something about them someday.

Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.

I can't force myself to make up a song. Music comes to me naturally.