Christina Grimmie Quotes

All my songs are where I am.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

'Wild Hope' just felt like such a selfish venture to me. It was a way for me to get out of my head, get some clarity on certain situations, and finally be a part of something that I was completely behind creatively and proud of.

My songs are just little letters to me.

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

With pretty much everything that I've done, in terms of going from being a songwriter and producer for other artists to doing my stuff, all the songs that I've kept to myself have always been me writing about my life.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.

I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.

I always find another version of myself in each of my films.

Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really personal for me, that sort of creative outlet where you put your emotions to paper or put to song. I don't do it that much anymore, but to let someone in on that outlet and to have it susceptible to judgment is scary.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.