Ingrid Michaelson Quotes

All the broken hearts in the world still beat

I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.

It should be like a driver's license - no one can have an Instagram until they're 18. It's the wild, wild west, the internet.

Baby you've got these sort of hands to rip me apart. And baby you've got this sort of face to start this old heart. But your eyes are warning me this early morning that my loves too big for you my love.

You call me a mountain, and I call you the sea. I'll stand tall and certain and watch you swallow me.

When you're writing with someone else it helps you think of things you never would've thought of.

Maybe I think you're cute and funny. Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you, if you know what I mean.

There's something about having an artistic outlet that is so important to the human mind and development. It's as important as any other subject in school. I think it should be mandatory. It's part of our genetic makeup.

I never though I could love anyone but myself
Now I know I can't love anyone but you
You make me think that maybe I won't die alone

With Twitter and Instagram and all of these vehicles where fans can directly interact with you and get your attention, there's a little bit of an entitlement. Like, "Why won't you follow me or write me back?" Well, if I write you back, then I have to write everyone back.

Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something amazing about sharing that experience with someone else.

The older I get, the more I realize I'm becoming people's role models and that's freaky to me. That's not what you intend to do when you set out to be a musician, to be a little 14-year-old's role model.

Happy is the Heart that still feels Pain

I love you more than I could ever promise because you take me the way I am.

I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.

Everybody, everybody wants to be loved

I think kids who have music in their lives are more focused. They have better attention spans. They excel more in their studies. They have a better sense of self-esteem and self-worth.

Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.

That sounds really simplistic, but if I'm in an enclosed space, or my apartment, and I live very close to a park - there's something about being outside and being near things that are green.

And we are so fragile,and our cracking nones make noise, and we are just breakable, breable, breakable girls

If you wait for someone else's hand, you will surely fall down.

I try to keeps things pretty light, try to make people laugh. I find it difficult to keep trying to promote myself. I know that's the whole point of it, to promote my music, but I like to use it to be funny and silly.