Gabby Barrett Quotes

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

I started writing songs at age 15.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.

Music lives in my mother - she's played in bands in Detroit and toured and did the whole thing. So I have somebody who's done it all to just talk to. And we write songs together.

I've been writing songs since my teens.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it.

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

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

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

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

I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

I'm not a natural songwriter.

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

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

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

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.

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

Music is my life. It is sacred.