“My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.” FirstsWantedSongGirlWishKnownAdviceSkinsLike MeObsessedThickThick Skin Author:Kate Voegele
“As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.” WritingSongTeenagerPerformingObsessed Author:Anthony Minghella
“As a kid, I was obsessed with the Who. They were the most important band to me. Songs like "I'm One" helped me get through high school.” ImportantKidsSchoolSongBandHigh SchoolObsessed Author:Judd Apatow
“Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.” ThinkingHumansTwoBodySongSpaceFieldsBonesFleshObsessedVisualsTwo ThingsCountrysideAnatomyOpen Spaces Author:Ellie Goulding
“I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I write songs. I was always attracted to songs that had a brilliant pun or a clever turn of phrase, but came from a dark, bitter place. As a writer, I've always gravitated towards that feeling.” WayWritingCountryFeelingsKidsSongTurnsDarkInfluenceHugeBrilliantCleverBitterObsessedPhrasesPun Author:Teddy Thompson
“I am so all over the place with my music taste, it's ridiculous. It is! I mean, I find myself listening to weird things like hardcore techno music and then I'll be listening to mainstream hip-hop music. But it's like I am so crazy with my music taste. I'll listen to a song, I'll become obsessed with it, and then I'm on to the next one. So it's just very inconsistent.” MeanSongNextCrazyListeningTasteHip HopRidiculousHipsObsessedHopsMainstreamInconsistentThe Next OneWeird ThingsHardcoreTechnoHip Hop Music Author:Taylor Lautner
“I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.” SongFindingsObsessedMelody Author:Hoodie Allen