Amity Gaige Quotes

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.

A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as some sort of treasure chest to keep their secrets. I felt like sometimes they would tell me stories they wouldn't tell anybody else in the whole world. And I loved these stories.

I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story.

You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that's inside that you've learned from that life period. There are really very few people I can share that with.

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.

They say, 'Write what you know.' What I know isn't cheerleader; it has a little bit of teeth to it.

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

I believe that every life is a collection of individual 'journey stories.'

It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person.

To be honest, I don't mind talking about my experiences in life, but details aren't for everyone.

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.

I always write from a personal place - whether it be about my friends or myself or a story that I heard.

It's not just that everyone has a story. It's that everyone has a thousand stories. Everyone is infinite.

I like to read everything, really, especially autobiographies.

I worked on 'Always and Forever, Lara Jean' for a few months before I breathed a word of it my editor or agent.

Share your true stories.

Most of the things I sing in my songs, I've lived.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever - I rap about it.

I think there are definitely a lot of subjects I don't share with people, but I'm not sure where that border is.

Sometimes I observe stuff I haven't been through and write about it. I used to walk my dog with these 50-year-olds, and they'd tell me stories I could use.