Christina Grimmie Quotes

That's what we get to do as songwriters, right? You get to explore stuff.

I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.

I've been a huge fan of Adele, Sam Smith, and Ed Sheeran, and those amazing artists draw inspiration from their present and past experiences; they write songs from their heart.

The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

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

People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.

I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

I'm constantly writing music and keeping myself busy somehow.

One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.

I tell people, 'I don't make music, I make worlds.'

The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.

I work every day. I write every day. I walk around in silent conversation with my latest unfinished songs.

I try to think of the songs as little movies. They're always pretty visual to me. I can always sort of see them. I don't always know what the end result is going to be, and I don't know exactly what it's going to sound like, but I can kinda see them.