Lindsey Buckingham Quotes

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.

We've always written from personal experiences.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

All of my songs were about my firsthand experiences. Pretty much, I've learned how to become my own muse and take situations from my own life and wear them on my sleeve.

I decided with 'Savage Season' to use a lot of things in my life as the basis.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

I don't write about my life in my column.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.

I write about what I'm going through.

As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.