Cole Swindell Quotes

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time.

Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn't know I had.

I always recommend to any player to always compose their own music. It's one of the best things you can do to find a road to your own style.

I think when I started my first album, I was 17 or 18, so I guess I was basically a child.

'Tongue' is literally just one piece of the puzzle. This album is something I've worked on over the course of my entire career and something I've been discovering myself in it.

You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.

My music's matured so much, I don't have to create any barriers.

Pushing yourself and digging into something new, that's what being a musician is all about.

It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.

At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

I'm coming up on 40 next year, and after making so many records and doing music for so long, I'm looking for a change and a different perspective. And every now and then, I think I have something I want to say.

I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.

Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.

I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.