Mitchel Musso Quotes

Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can't look anywhere and see in my real life.

Most people think a song is a song - three minutes, and you're done. I don't think this way. Songs are my wings. They're what I use to fly. It's very important for me to put everything in the right place.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

We became the songs we wrote.

When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

That's what we get to do as songwriters, right? You get to explore stuff.

When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs.

You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.

You get to tell your story through your music if you choose to.

I've been able to carve my way out with lyrics and melodies.

Through art, you create your own world.

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.

Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.

When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.

The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.

It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

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

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

With songs one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise. And in that world you can be more than you actually are.

I realized that there was much more to my voice than I'd ever been led to explore and that I could make my own songs.