Laura Bell Bundy Quotes

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

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

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.

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

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

If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

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

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.

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

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

I think I've always been aware of it with my music. I think growing up basically and having a lot to deal with and just slowing down and having something to say and something to retract from, I think I just knew that what I was doing was extremely honest.

All my songs are where I am.

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

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