Chantal Kreviazuk Quotes

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.

I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's something you can write towards.

I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts.

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

'Crush' is probably the most honest project I've ever written. It's my voice.

I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.

I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but wonder - 'What are the people I know going to think about this?' So I have to remind myself that all is permissible. Art has to be a free space. Language has to be a free space.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.