Top 40 Jade Bird Quotes

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

The first song I ever wrote that I liked was called ‘When You’re Alone.’

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

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.

I’d gig three to five times a week while I was doing my A-levels. I’d always come in with a runny nose ’cause I was always ill and run-down. But I just pushed through.

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 write 100% of my material by myself. That’s really important to me because I don’t want what I’m trying to say to be diluted by anyone that might not know my circumstance or who I am as a person.

A big part of the reason that I make music is that I want to be a part of people’s memories – you’re there; you’re present in someone’s life.

I’m always up for new places and new locations… I think it’s the funnest part about the job.

I don’t see any reason why young women shouldn’t relate to me and have that connection with my music.

I just always really loved music that was coincidentally from the States.

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

I am a bit of a granny, I feel older than my years. I like to read rather than go to parties but at the same time my band and I have a lot of fun on tour and can be big kids.

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

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

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

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

A good song always has to do with the person representing it – how they’re feeling in that moment – but I think my songs don’t need to be exclusive in terms of gender or race or that kind of thing.

You do have to kind of sit down and try to write, because it’s not the easiest thing when you’re off and on planes. I’m sure if you’re always on a bus, it’s a little bit easier.

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.

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

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

There’s not point in doing anything without conviction.

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

I don’t want a middle-aged white man telling me how to write my feelings. It’s not gonna work for me.

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.

Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that’s something I adhere to in my life and work.

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

It was always quite negative messages on love I was given as a kid.

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 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’ve always been into music. My mom and dad used to always play music in the house.

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’ve been surrounded by incredibly strong women: incredibly, unapologetically strong women, and I guess that for me has just been the biggest inspiration.

People like to associate you with hard times and I pride myself on coming through them more than experiencing them.

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 don’t really get inspired by landscapes that much, it’s all people.

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

I’ve had to tell people that I’m not co-writing. I don’t want to do it and that’s that.