Paul Kelly Quotes

It happened really quickly when I was 21. I mean, I wanted to be a writer pretty...from about the age of 15, 16. Um, I think, like most people, I, you know, wrote poetry as a teenager...and then I started to make... I went to university for a little while, after school, and met a whole new group of people, and some of them played guitar and...that's when I started to, you know, just pick up...chords and so on from them. And then, uh, one day, I can still remember, you know, when I was...21, I wrote a song. And...then I wrote another one. And then...it just felt...like a knack.
Paul Kelly

Yeah, quite often I'm trying to write a certain kind of song and it's more ambitious than what my voice will get to. I guess...that's how I started writing songs with other people in mind. 'Cause, I mean, my voice is fairly limited. I don't have a great range ...But my songwriting ambition is much larger than what my voice will do. So...I write songs and imagine other voices quite often.
Paul Kelly