Loren Gray Quotes

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.

Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or somebody you know about - something that you feel deeply and passionately about. Never try and force it.

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate from your own experiences and make reasonable assumptions about how your characters would feel and act.

As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record is true to form. I make it a point not to sing anything that I haven't felt or gone through.

I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

You can only really write about what you know about.

The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.

I feel like if I've written a song about something I haven't experienced, I wouldn't be able to perform it properly, and people would be able to see that. People can see right through that.

If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

I don't write anything that I hadn't experienced or hadn't been through.

I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience.

Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.

If I'm writing a song for Karen Harding, I know I can't impose what I want to say onto her. I literally have to get into her headspace and think, 'what does she want to say?' When it comes to my stuff, it's the same. What can I write that's true to me?

I can only write about what I know, I'd be crap anywhere else.

If I can't be honest with music, forget it.

I can't write about people I don't feel some sort of connection to.

I wouldn't write about something that I haven't experienced myself.

I've done bits of writing for other people but when I'm writing music as Years & Years, I'm using my life and my stories and my experiences. I want it to be authentic and real but also to work as a pop song - I never want to just put in a cheesy line.

You have to write what you know.

I think it's easier for me to write from experience.

I try to write about things that actually happened so that I know it's real before I put it down on paper.