Christina Perri Quotes

You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul

Do what scares you, your dreams are there waiting for you.

Learning to let things go is key for a good quality of living.

Don't count the miles, count the I love you's!

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

I believe if I knew where I was going, I'd lose my way.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

I have died everyday, waiting for you.

It's all going to be okay.

I'm only human, and I bleed when I fall down.

In real life, I'm such a dorky, happy person. I express myself in three ways: I talk a lot, I write songs and I get tattoos.

What I really love is touring on a bus with my band playing shows every night and feeling the audience, feeling the presence of people actually listening to my music. Feeding my soul is what touring feels like for me and I absolutely refuse to have a bad time doing something I really, really love.

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.

If you could envision... the meaning of a tragedy... you might be surprised to hear, its you and me.

I depend on my family and friends a lot. I have a group of people I'm always honest and current with. I try to get through pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way.

When people come to my shows, they have the freedom to feel something, and we're all just a big bowl of feels.

And all along I believed I would find you. Time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more.

Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.

Emotionally, it was the hardest 33 days of my life, but it was worth it because the result is that this album is 100 percent me. It’s heartfelt, real, bold, honest, vulnerable, hopeful, strong, poetic, bluesy, gritty, pretty, and simple.

How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?

I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.

I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.

Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

I try to get through emotional pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way. I also use chocolate.

It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.