Kiesza Quotes

It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.

All my songs are where I am.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

I think for an artist it's really important to have experiences, and I've had a lot of those. It's definitely inspired my lyrics and my style, even down to what I wear.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

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

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

I started writing songs at age 15.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.