Chris Young Quotes

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

I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.

I'm still doing me. I try to come up with different concept for my shows, you gotta keep the people interested, but I'm still me.

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

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the audience, and I just talk to people and get all excited and tell a lot of jokes, and sing some songs, and read from my work and remind people how powerful they are and how beautiful they are.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

We became the songs we wrote.

Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.

Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave.

I'm starting to find my own style.

Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let someone else do it.

I take a little bit from everybody and add that to my life to make me, me. I wanna be nobody else but Future. When you look at me, I want you to say, 'Future.' The way I talk, the way I dress, there's nobody in the world but me.

I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

I'm always curious about anyone who has enough passion to go onstage and say, 'This is what I'm really passionate about.' It's always worth listening to.

The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another.

'Playing House' works because we're being supremely honest to what we think is funny and not what we think other people think is funny.

I write my own lyrics; I can incorporate my own ideas. And yes, apparently, people think it's cool. That's pretty awesome.