Kris Allen Quotes

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

I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.

Because my musical background is so diverse, it lends me to have very much my own style and it helps me to relate to the music as I'm going to play it. I just write. And if it comes out country, it's a country song. The funny thing is, I write all across the board. I just write what hits me at the time.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

In my off-time, I do record. Once in a while, I'll just go into the studio if there's a really good song that I have in my head and want to do. I think, as artists, you're constantly in creative motion. If I stopped writing songs, then that's a part of me that would stop in my life, and I need constant motion.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

When we were putting together 'One Of Us,' we were just following our impulses and what felt good.

I've been writing songs since my teens.