Lizzo Quotes

I'm a late bloomer in music.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I came to singing organically.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

In high school, I would secretly play Joni Mitchell songs all the time. That's when I started singing and playing at the same time, and I got really into doing that.

The thing about me is that I'm very fortunate to have had the opportunities with Avenged Sevenfold in songwriting. I really think it's helped to bolster my guitar playing as well.

Music has always been something that I knew that I would eventually want to pursue.

I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14.

There's no musician who just wakes up one day and decides, 'This is what I want to do.' It takes some development.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

We started the band when I was about 19 or 20. At that age, it would have been kind of hard to imagine a lot of the stuff that I've written. We were playing garage rock. I wanted to dash out three chords and scream. But if you do that for 20 years, what's the point?

A lot of the songs that I wrote during 'Pt. 1' and 'Pt. 2' are the first songs that I ever wrote that sounded like that. I was in this phase - a certain creative space in my life - personally and musically.

I've been making music since age five.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be either a pianist or a classical singer, and when I discovered songwriting, it was like a new portal had been opened.

I started off playing my own songs, just because I saw it as a means to an end almost of, 'Right, if you want to play gigs, you have to write your own songs.' I mean, they were absolutely terrible.

I didn't know how to play guitar until I was 21, but from the moment I was good enough on guitar to even put one song together, I kind of billed myself as an artist.

When I started to make music I wasn't as serious at first.

I love stretching myself musically.

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

You're a constant student, as a musician.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.