Ciara Quotes

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

From my experience, moving through life, things tend to go in eight- to 10-year cycles. Friends, relationships and whatnot.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time.

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

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

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set out to become a director.

I get inspiration from my everyday life.

When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.

I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.

Throughout my life, I happily deferred to family, companions, children.

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational.