Leif Garrett Quotes

When I signed that major-label contract when I was 20 years old. I did it because I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. That's every 20-year-old's dream - to do whatever the hell you want.

I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time.

I was never chasing to make a career out of it, but every day after school, I'd go to my keyboard and play for four hours and make up songs. It was a constant part of my life.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

That's what my life is, writing songs.

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.

I started playing guitar, like, when I was 17 or so, but where I'm from, you just don't hear about people moving to Nashville and making it. It was such a foreign thing to me. I never knew music was an option for me.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

Composing is my life blood.

I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.