Natalia Lafourcade Quotes

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 really like the art of music, the way that you can express yourself through music.

About 25 years ago, when I was 15, I wrote a song called 'Indradhanush', which speaks about the seven colours, equating each with emotions that we as human beings experience.

Since I was 9 years old, I knew how to make a song. But when I got older, I used it as a way to express myself.

I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

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

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really personal for me, that sort of creative outlet where you put your emotions to paper or put to song. I don't do it that much anymore, but to let someone in on that outlet and to have it susceptible to judgment is scary.

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

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.

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

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

Most of the songs I wrote are personal.

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

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.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.