Lemmy Quotes

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

All my songs are where I am.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

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

As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical.

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

I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I'm really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.

For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

The stories in the songs come from my real life.

I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right.

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

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is about something that you've done.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

I never dreamed that the little ditties I wrote about annoying customers or bagel recipes would turn into a full-length musical comedy. But a very wise person told me to 'write what you know'. So I did.

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.