Grace VanderWaal Quotes

I just play the guitar and write songs.

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

There are no rules to writing a song.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning.

The guitar is the ultimate vehicle for expression and composition for me. It's a part of my DNA!

Most times, you walk into a room, and you don't really have a starting point. You have to create the starting point, and normally you'd do that by thinking of a title or a concept for a song, then working back from there.

The first songs I ever wrote - my first, like, serious offerings - were all written on ukulele. It's always been a part of the way I write for a really long time.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I sing a bit and play guitar.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.