Chord Overstreet Quotes

All my songs mean something to me.

For your songs to connect with people, they've got to mean something to you.

'Little Miss Sunshine' was really important to me.

A good song's a good song, and well known songs take on meaning in people's lives.

Songs have been my greatest teachers and continue to be really important in my life.

The song 'Even If' is incredibly special to me.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through.

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites.

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

The most personal track would have to be 'Love The Way We Used To.' It's one of the songs that I listen to outside of all the records that I wrote.

'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set out to become a director.

That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.

One of the beautiful things about having kids is I had no idea how much it will make you look into yourself and who you are and what you believe in and what your past was like and all that kind of stuff. I think it's made me really look at life in a much more intense way.

Songs are really interesting in that way. Sometimes, they grow with you. Sometimes, you outgrow them.

Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

I've always tried to put a little message in my music.

I grew up on particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that. It was less about a career than finding the films I wanted to see.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

I always tell the story of 'Irreplaceable.' I initially wrote 'Irreplaceable' with myself in mind, with plans of it being my record. I love that record; however, what I realised about that record was that though given the circumstances of that situation - men and women are not that different - when you sing about it, it changes things, you know?