Tory Lanez Quotes

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

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

When you're making music, you're creeping up on your heart and pouring it out into something.

If I'm not invested emotionally, the artwork doesn't feel emotional.

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it was just a feeling that felt good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.

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.

I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

I try to sort of make myself emotional in the moment when I'm writing, and that always translates better. When I'm writing, I can't do abstract.

Music should come from the heart. It should happen. That should be automatic, and if you labour on creating music, it will not have soul.

I love creating things that come from my gut and my soul.

Music, or the type of music that I'm writing, is very personal.

I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.

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

All my songs are where I am.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

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

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

I love artists that just do what they do with so much passion and emotion.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to express what I think people are feeling.

All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.