Chord Overstreet Quotes

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

I always write from a personal place - whether it be about my friends or myself or a story that I heard.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

The writing process really became natural when it was real and from my heart, and I was exposed.

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.

I know how music makes me feel; I know how it affects my life.

It's important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs.

All my music is autobiographical, and that's the reason why people like my music. They know when I'm saying something on a song, I mean it. It comes from a real place and captures the realness in my life.

I wish someone had told me that my stories are really mine to tell. In other words, anything that I think is important or that has moved me has the ability to move somebody else.

With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for.

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

My act is based on my life.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.