Brandi Carlile Quotes

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.

Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.

I express my thoughts through my music.

I express myself better when I'm singing, so I always want to hold on to the music side.

Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music.

I've always been into writing love songs.

I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Most of the songs I wrote are personal.

Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.

There are so many great songs yet to sing.

I've always loved singing and the catharsis of it.