Kristian Bush Quotes

I really sing songs that move me. I'm not in show business. I'm in the communications business. That's what it's for me.

What I am after, above all, is expression.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.

No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

If I'm going to release anything into the world, I want it to have a positive message. So I think that 'Sit Still, Look Pretty' and 'Hide Away' were two upbeat pieces, and their messages really uplift me the most.

My creativeness stems from my love of music. Music is pure emotion. Music is the infinity sign. Music is self-expression in its purest form - it's how I express my anger, my self-doubt, my love. I think my music is very vulnerable and very expressive, very transparent.

Music has been my way of expressing what I've been feeling.

Country's more than about what the music sounds like. It's what you're saying and who you are as a person.

I'm always giving life lessons in my music.

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

Music is the best way that I can communicate with other people.

Violin was my first form of expression - and is still in a lot of ways.

Songs, to me, have always been kind of like a diary, you know - and, say, when I did 'Teenager In Love,' maybe I was 16.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me.

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.