Charlie Puth Quotes

I think one of the reasons that we are able to actually keep making music that we want to make, and that we're inspired by, is because there is a certain amount of instability constantly, and I think that mirrors the instability of any given life.

I've become a workaholic. When the shows slow down and there's no press and I can get my time to myself in the studio with my music, I get into this zone, man. I enter this incredible space where I'm just making music. And I feel like I can work with anybody - with Elton John, with Hanson - and I can make something incredible.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

I don't love the whole Hollywood mentality, but I do love the weather and how motivated everyone is around here. It motivates me to make fun music. I'm an East Coaster - I'm from New Jersey, so I'll probably feel like that forever.

Everything feels better in London. And if my life feels better, then it's easier to make music.

It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying to write a song based on where you're at right at this moment.

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

First of all, I want people to understand that I'm here to create for them. To create music for people so they'll know that I'm a source of love. And they can depend on my name.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write 'Setting Sons,' I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really. And I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

The muses visit when I'm lonely.

Music is supposed to be inspired.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a real creative process.

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.

I used to consider the listener. But now I'm in a space where, if I'm not inspired, I can't really do the music. I can't feel it.

I am always looking for material - whether for my notebooks or for Twitter or Instagram - which means I'm looking for meaning.

The music, for me, doesn't come on a schedule. I don't know when it's going to come, and when it does, I want it out.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.