AJ Tracey Quotes

Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

I want to write from my own experience.

My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

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

My poems are always about my life in one way or another.

It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building up from nothing.

My music is an extension of who I am and what I went through and what I know musically.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

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

I always write from a personal place - whether it be about my friends or myself or a story that I heard.

I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that's happened in the strip has happened to me.

We've always written from personal experiences.

All of my surroundings influence my songwriting. It's autobiographical, although I leave enough space so it's relatable.

I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something I've experienced.

All of my songs were about my firsthand experiences. Pretty much, I've learned how to become my own muse and take situations from my own life and wear them on my sleeve.

It's truthful - every single song is an extension of me and a truthful piece of inspiration from my past or something I'm currently going through.

All my work comes out of my life.

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.

As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative.

Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn't have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who I saw the most. He would always come in at around 10:00 P.M., and I would still be at my desk, so I wrote a play about a first-year TV writer and the friendship that she developed with the janitor. Our stories matter.

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.

I like to write about what I've seen and experiences I've been through.