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" I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically. "

Kina Grannis

Writing

Singing

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" My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony. "

" My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses. "

" I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing. "

" I'm kind of feeling like I don't mind being open with the random details of my life, like I'm at a coffee shop or my toe hurts or something, but obviously other more personal areas of life where I will just never really go there. "

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" I don't have any rock star demeanor to me. I just can't pull that off. "

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" I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me. "

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" I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals, writing songs about my stuffed animals, starting an a capella group with my cousins while on vacation, or awkwardly singing along to karaoke tracks alone in my bedroom - singing always found a way into my life. "

" If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour. "

" I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy. "

" Not only am I putting music out there, I'm giving part of myself away. "

" In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone to hear it. To remedy this, I took to retreating to stairwells as a safe place to sing and write music. It was there that I wrote most of my songs in college and really grew into an artist. "

" Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song. "

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" The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful. "

" I'm really into good nutrition and keeping healthy! That said, I'm also addicted to candy - It's my biggest weakness. "