Chad Gilbert Quotes

Most of the songs I wrote are personal.

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.

I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing - just something you do in your own little corner to calm yourself down. But when my friend, the French songwriter Etienne Daho, listened to my songs, he was so moved that told me that I had to do a demo, share them with the world.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.

If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reckless with things. I'm a passionate person. I'm a super passionate person. I think there's definitely been sorrow in my life, good and bad. I think it comes through. I hope it comes through in my writing because to me that's what artistry is.

The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

I didn't really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn't want to be in the music without the lifestyle.

I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

We just want to be the best version of ourselves that we can be. Be true to ourselves and make the best music we can. Entertain people which is what we were put on this Earth for.

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

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

As long as I don't have to compromise my art, that's the most important thing. It doesn't matter if I'm famous or not, it's all about the music.