Kina Grannis Quotes

I decided I want to sing more because that's been my passion since I was six.

Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.

I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.

I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

I love to sing and play the piano. As a child, I've always loved to sing my heart out, and even my teachers encouraged me to take up singing.

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

Music is such an important part of my life.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.

I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.

I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

I think maybe one day I'll go back to music. I don't know. I don't know if sometimes you lose a passion or you don't lose it, it becomes more personal and less about sharing it with everyone.

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

I always enjoyed singing; I played guitar.

Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

I love the notion of a dude sitting there with an untuned guitar tapping his foot and just singing his passion out; that's what got me into music in the first place.

Acting, I get to explore other people and other characters; with music, I get to express and explore myself.

Mostly everything I've ever sung comes from a personal place.

'Crush' is probably the most honest project I've ever written. It's my voice.

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it be painting, dancing, acting, or singing.