Diane Warren Quotes

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

There was an old acoustic in the house that my mother had given me for my fifth birthday. I took it off the wall and started jamming. I was seven years old at the time.

My dad had his own business and was extremely busy, but on a very rare occasion, he would play guitar and sing a bit. I was always fascinated by it. I wrote my first song in first grade because my dad was making songs up during those special moments, and it seemed like a fun thing to try myself.

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife. You know what I mean?

I sing a bit and play guitar.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

My dad and I watched 'Amadeus' when I was 6, and I knew I wasn't going to be an engineer.

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.

I write, and I sing, and I play a little guitar. I mean, it's tiny. Ba-dump-bum!

I love the guitar because you can bring it everywhere, and you can start a jam wherever you are.

I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.

I'd say I did a lot of what I did with songs like 'At My Best' was because of the influence of my daughter.

In my living room, I was always playing guitar and writing songs and singing them. My dad and I would always sing together - only for friends and family, but always since I was a little girl.

I got this cheap guitar, and then I fell in love with it and basically put down the keyboard.

I got my first guitar for Christmas when I was five years old.

I always had my guitar; I worked at writing some songs. I always played music - in the house. I sang to my daughters, I scribbled down some ideas. Actually I didn't always play music. I did leave it alone for some time too.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

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