Elle King Quotes

I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours

I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

I'm still writing from personal experiences, which is what people connected with in the first place.

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

Mentally, I write myself a little story. Of course, sometimes you have a song that says, "Do that." My best example is Singin' in the Rain. Arthur Freed had insisted that the song should be in the picture, but he was very anxious about it.

Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

Sometimes melody and sometimes lyrics. It depends on the tempo and feel of the song. Slower pieces usually begin with melody and faster ones with lyrics. I write for the song and it leads me to my conclusion.

I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

I think expression is at it's best when it comes from an honest place, so I always try to use my own life experiences, feelings, struggles, frustrations etc. as the catalyst for my song writing.

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the point where a friend can say, "It's very you," and that made me feel good.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

I never have used any other artist as a model for a sound or a song. It always has to come from an emotion, and capturing the essence of that emotion in a song.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.