(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience. Willie Nelson
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born. Charlie Parker
Trey Spruance didn't want to tour for ages. And Dean Menta has always been our guitar-roadie during Angel Dust, and I remember him playing fantastically during soundchecks. During each gig, he was watching from the side of the stage, seeing Big Jim play stuff that he could play better. Mike Patton
I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it. Don Johnson
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy. Garth Brooks
Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot but look at him now! An Alcoholic racist! Frankie Boyle