Charli XCX Quotes

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 began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I recorded my first song when I was 13, 14 years old, and I've been running with it ever since.

I started writing songs at 17.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

I came to music very young.

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

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

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

I've been making music since age five.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

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

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

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

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

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

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.

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'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

I'm a late bloomer in music.