Dolores O'Riordan Quotes

When you write, what's going on in your life shines through in the songs.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.

'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.

I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is.

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.

And I feel that it's inevitable that the work that I do will reflect the life that I live. And the life I live feels very diverse.

Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff in there.

Song writing has been a lifeline for me.

Music reflects an artist's feelings and their experiences.

I write about everything that happens in my life, whether or not the songs actually are released or not.

Social media gives a lot of people a platform where they can express their feelings. I like to do mine through songs. I let info build up. In some way, it translates into paper whenever I sit down.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

I think every song I do is specifically tailored to what I would say and how I approach situations.

For me it's very important to express my thoughts, the pictures I carry inside of me, maybe because it's important to get them out.

It's been so much a part of my life the thinking that I go through is crucial. I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.