Natasha Bedingfield Quotes

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

I don't think songs have to be like these super-#1-smash-hit-sounding songs, because I think it's more important that it's like, 'Hey! This is coming out of me. This is something I connect with. This is something that I like to sing.'

I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something that I was going to try desperately to woo a listener. As long as I'm using my voice in a way that helps people understand what I'm trying to say, then I feel like I'm doing all right.

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.

I just want to write fun, interesting music that pushes boundaries and is still true to myself. I want people to feel something.

During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.

That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

There's a lot of vulnerability in songs - I'm not talking about pop songs - from people that are in the art of songwriting more than the commercial enterprise of it.

I'm very comfortable singing myself, first of all. Secondly, there's a certain disconnect when you write the song and you have someone else sing it for you. And it's kind of like a fakeness about it.

When I'm rapping, I become very emotional, and people can feel it through my face.

Whenever I sing a song, I just want it to reach out to the audience.

I want to relate. I don't want to just rap and go to the next album.

It's important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs.

I feel like emotional content is the most important of any song, for any artist.

Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.

For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I'm hopeless at singing songs that don't have a core.

People can hear my songs are coming from something real. I mean what I say; I'm not just writing to impress critics or young girls, or older girls. The way I talk is the way I write a song.

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.

I tend to explain my songs.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.