Top 30 Jade Bird Quotes

I think that I’m a powerful female, a young singer-songwriter with an energy that’s not really been done before. I think that’s what people need to know about, you know.

I see magic in conversation and words, and music is purely speaking to others, isn’t it?

I’m just thinking about the vision for how I want my music to go and what I want it to say. I’m always creating in a way, even if it’s just thinking about it.

Audiences in the U.S. can sometimes be a lot less refined. If they like something, they tend to express it more loudly.

My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.

My mum brought me up by herself, pretty much. She had me at the age of 20, and my grandmother was a single mother, too, for most of her life.

I was always the sniffly kid with bags under my eyes.

My grandparents divorced, both of them, and then my mum and dad did. So it’s like, divorce, divorce, divorce.

I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don’t like to be set within a genre. It feels very limiting.

I think with how society makes me feel like I should grasp onto the inner strength of me being a woman, and I felt like it was all just very much married into what I’m listening to, what I’m writing, how I’m feeling.

I want to start thinking about other people and the political climate. I can’t sit here and write an album about myself. It just feels wrong.

I can’t emphasize enough how much of a writer I am.

My grandma divorced my granddad and became a finance manager to get her own house, and my mum worked very hard to make sure we could have our own space.

But when I was 12 or 13, I found the acoustic guitar and got into guitar music ultimately, like Black Motorcycle Club, obviously Neil Young, Crosby, Stills and Nash.

I’d always been a kid that loved literature, reading, writing – anything to do with words – so music was just a path.

I write great songs and the mistakes make them even better. No one else could write a Morrissey song.

There’s quite a stigma attached to country music in the UK – but I kind of enjoy that.

As a songwriter, I’ve got a lot of facets, so to speak. When you come to a live show, you get a better sense of that, because you’ll see me performing a piano ballad and some acoustic songs and some not acoustic songs, all in the same set.

Every time people try and define me, it gets battered around. I like to keep people guessing.

I like my jumpsuits. They’re easy to get about in, I can move a bit onstage, there’s nothing to tuck in, and I don’t look like a little girl.

No one ever wants to be the girl that got her relationship wrong again, but if you let your cynicism take over you risk never falling in love.

I love playing live, and doing big TV shows are exciting.

I make sure that everyone on the team and in my band really love music. They live for music, and it’s our whole life, and we choose it to be so.

Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in my family. So it just became a total therapy, like most artists.

I’d been gigging since I was 14, doing little competitions and pubs and clubs and old people’s homes.

I think I’m eclectic and I’m never afraid to not know an artist or a band or an album because I want to hear it.

I always try to be myself, be it a festival crowd or my own crowd.

I’ve often been told that if music doesn’t work out I could be a comedian.

I always respected country music for its narrative and how it’s so solid, you can get the picture in your mind.

Connecting with fans online can be the make or break or some artists, and I think that’s a bit dangerous.