Krist Novoselic Quotes

Sing your heart out and write the best song you possible can.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

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.

Music isn't what I do. It's who I am.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.

My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

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

I messed around with the guitar from the age of about eight, but when I hit 13, it was the only thing I wanted from life.

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

I am not really into paintings, to be honest, but for me, the art I love is when I see singers putting their heart into their song, actors giving the performance of their lives, and books and movies that make me feel something I never thought I could; there's art in everything as long as it's made with soul.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

I sing a bit and play guitar.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

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

I think my favorite thing is songwriting.

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

I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to pretend to be other people. As a singer, though, I feel there's much more of me in that. I've written the songs, I'm singing them, I'm exposing my feelings.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.