Hilary Hahn Quotes

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

I like to dabble in different things, but music is my first love. It connects to me in a way my side projects don't because it's so personal. I write the words. Music is like my diary. It's my therapy.

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

I express myself better when I'm singing, so I always want to hold on to the music side.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.

everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

I need to write to be happy.

If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.