Andy Grammer Quotes

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There's a yearning, or something, that comes out of me that people relate to.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

I don’t hide my emotions from people.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

It's the most personal thing that I do is sing. Because I can't tell a lie. I want them to know exactly what I'm feeling.

I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.

Everything I say, it comes from the heart. It's all real.

Most of the things I sing in my songs, I've lived.

Yeah, 'Mine' was inspired by a person, but it became much deeper than that. I obviously pulled lyrics... from stuff I was actually saying to this person and feeling about this person, but it was for people. I didn't want to make that song to impress that girl; I wanted to make that song to make people feel better.

I don't know, I've always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.

You do your best to tell your own story, in the most specific way, and then you hope that that travels well, when it's done with heart and honesty.

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.

I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.

Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.

I love hard; I love who I love, and I don't make any qualms about it.

I believe in the importance of sincerity and emotion and honesty in TV, even when it's goofy comedy.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.