Nina Nesbitt Quotes

I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

I'm kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.

Yeah, I put out some goofy stuff. I had no idea who I was as an artist at all before 'Posse on Broadway.'

When I listen to and play the songs from 'Narrow Stairs' now, that record feels like a record where we had established a style that arguably was more our own than it was in the beginning. Going into that record, I felt a lot more confident in my songwriting. It was a fairly prolific time for me.

Even on tour, where I perform songs from 'City Of Black And White,' I still do songs from 'Nothing Left To Lose.' I never turned my back on that material. On some albums, you change - that's all. The trick is to follow your heart and do what feels right.

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

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.

I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.

On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.

When I started writing, I just wanted to do something different and creative. I first thought neo-soul was a good pathway for me, so I tried that out but realized I didn't want to be placed in that box.

You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.

I always recommend to any player to always compose their own music. It's one of the best things you can do to find a road to your own style.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

I'm just going to make the music I love to make, and I'm going to mature with my music.

I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.

I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.

As I've grown as an artist, I've gotten more and more in touch with my center, and that center is voice and guitar.

Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.

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

It's taken a while for me to figure out my sound. It's tough, coming from DJing, because you know how things are supposed to sound, but you also don't want to be formulaic about it.