Nina Nesbitt Quotes

I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.

I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs.

We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write anything additional.

I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role, because, of course, it's really not me. I'm finding a new way. I don't know what it's going to be. But I know that I will need to give it to people one day.

I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

I love music so much. I've got something going all the time. I've gotta be singing. I've gotta be creating music, or I'm not happy.

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it's therapeutic for me.

I realized that music was the only thing I really thought about - music and writing.

To me, a day off is sitting at a piano or with a guitar and writing.

Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.

I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. Sometimes with a line you feel that it really captured what it is that you had inside you and you got it out for a stranger to read, someone who may never love you or meet you, but he or she is going to get that experience from that line.

Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you have to grab it when it's there.

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.