A Quote by Kelly Clarkson
I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.
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With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.
I write my songs because I've lived them.
My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.
I think when you've lived a bit, you read more into the songs. I do, anyway. And you're sort of living the songs rather than performing them.
There are great songs out there, and if I love them, and I know them, I'm going to sing them just because that's what songs are for.
I don't want to sing songs and write songs that need to have images behind them that are of a specific time. The times we live in today - I mean, there's a lot to work with. But I think that if I was my age in 1975 or 1985, I would have felt the same way because that's what I gravitate toward.
Fashion costs money, but songs are free. You can write them for free and you can sing them for free and they can infect those around you or the people from the future and they can sing them for free too.
I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.
For as long as I'm able to write songs and sing them, it's just about making them ones I feel proud to sing again and again.
Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.
If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.
I think I sing a few songs, and I sing them well, and one of them is the mob genre, you know, as a writer.
I think that the best songs to sing are songs that you love, because you sing them with love when you love them.
I think one of the reasons that I love the fans that have stuck around, because I really enjoy writing different kinds of songs. I don't know if I write them well or not, but I can write them.
Well, 9/11 made me think about the towers, and the fact that I lived in New York for a long time, while they were being built. In fact, I had a studio that was ripped out, along with the whole neighborhood, to put the towers in. I saw them go up. I lived with them, running past them in the morning. And they were like part of my furniture.
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
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