Kelsea Ballerini Quotes

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

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

I don't even know what made me start wanting to do music. It just... happened. Because I sat in my basement all the time, and music was my best friend, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid.

We've always tried to inspire ourselves, so to speak. In the beginning, that could mean just hearing your own songs played back to you for the very first time.

As a working musician, your first instinct is to try and do your job. It wasn't always my aspiration to sing; I just wanted to be a great working musician. But then Flying Lotus suggested I try, and nothing has ever been the same since.

I was inspired to be a singer/songwriter from an early age.

I started songwriting at around age 12, and that was it. I never really stopped. Nothing else ever really crossed my mind. It's truly the expression of who I am.

I started as a writer. I didn't play music until late in life.

I'm not sure if every song will be 'Take Me to Church,' but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.

I fell in love with Nashville and wrote with some of the best songwriters here.

I didn't move to Nashville with any inkling or dreams of getting a record deal. I didn't have those stars in my eyes. I just wanted to take a break, relax, and figure out songwriting.

It's like, boom! - I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

All I ever thought about was music and being a musician.

I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14.

I was driving home and thinking about what rock and roll should be about. 'Adventure and Trouble!' I thought. I sang the song first and then added the chords later.

I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.

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