Bebe Rexha has revealed that she was once told that staying in the music industry is a lot easier if you have songwriting skills. 

She chatted to Stylist magazine about making an impact in the music world and confessed that writing songs is a great way to build a reputation and to carve out a name for yourself:

"It was tough because I was thrown in with all these 40-year-old men. But I met this lady, Samantha Cox, who was working with Lady Gaga at the time. She believed in me and told me the key to staying alive is to be a songwriter."

She went onto add that getting a start in the industry, especially as a woman, is incredibly difficult: "Starting out is really hard. I had men inviting me to their studios privately when I was 16, telling me not to bring my parents."

"An established male artist once told me to be quiet; he actually shushed me. Music is a collaborative process, you have everyone chiming in, trying to make better a song. If I'm being told to sit in a room quietly and hold my hands over my lap, then what's the point?"

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