Christina Grimmie Quotes

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It's underneath all the music I've ever written... An artist is trying to tell you how he's feeling. And if that accidentally becomes entertaining, it becomes a career.

For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

When you're writing songs for yourself, as all artists do, it's about 'me.' It's about what you feel and your emotions. You're trying to get something out of your system about your experiences.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I'm going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it's a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

It's a really personal thing for me to write a song.

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

I don't talk with people about how I am feeling - I just usually write a song about it.

I've always been good at talking about my feelings; that helps with writing songs.

Pain's always been the root of my music. I just write what I feel.

I'm putting out music that I love, and they're basically just stories of my life and how I try and teach myself to think about things. They're kind of like notes to self, basically.

There's so much stuff that you see every day that you want to talk about, but I'm not the type to open up, so the only way I could open up is through music.

A lot of my music is inspired by personal situations in my life.

I'm not the best at expressing my feelings other than in songs or on paper.