Lindsey Stirling Quotes

It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.

Our hope is to deliver an incredibly fun and compelling game that will give the fans more than what they've been waiting for, and show a whole new generation of gamers how much fun it is to live the life of a pirate!

You can't go wrong with pirates. I mean, they're pirates. It's what everyone wants to be when they're a kid. Ninja, assassin, or a pirate - and now you can kind of be all three.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

I think if I could be a man in any time period, I would be a pirate. You know, go climbing in the rigging, sword fighting. I'd like to do that.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

I have a pirate fetish - I just always thought eye patches were sexy.

I was the kid who stared out the window. I fantasized myself on the deck of pirate ships - Cussler at the bridge.

Pirates, me hearties, are the Patronus of the freelancer.

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.

Pirates have always fascinated me.

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.