Tori Kelly Quotes

I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.

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 write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.

The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

I don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you.

Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.