Brie Larson Quotes

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I've had that I'm so thankful for.

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

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.

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.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

We've always written from personal experiences.

I do always write from a personal place.

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

I started writing for myself because I know how to write for myself. I know how to show what I can do.

I gave myself the small task of writing honestly about the kind of life I knew. I believe there is some value in carrying out that task, however limited.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal.

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

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.

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

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

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.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.