Billy Bragg Quotes

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

I'm not on a record like some rapper trying to boast about my clothes or where I'm from. I'm creating stories, experiences, the way places make me feel, the way a person makes me feel.

Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.

I have always written from a personal place.

I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning.

We've always written from personal experiences.

I always tell people, I never get writer's block because it's coming straight from my brain, like, real-life experiences. I'm like the news. I'm just reporting it for myself.

Covers are always so fun to do, but there's nothing like telling your own story.

As long as I'm making something from my voice, from my perspective there will be Asian American content because I am the storyteller.

There's always an element of truth to what I write because that's why I write.

I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.

Sometimes I felt like my columns were like little novels in themselves. But I wasn't writing what I believed. I'm not interested in what I believe.

Write your own stories.

I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever - I rap about it.

If there's something you want to say or talk about, then that's what rap is all about - talking about your own experience.

I feel like one of my strengths is writing about stories that are unique to me but somehow relate with everyone, and the one thing I've found is that if you make a song wholly unique to you, then you don't have to compete with everybody, because nobody else can make a song like you.

You can only write your own vision.

Everybody - every single person - has a story. Find yours and tell it in your voice.

Because of who I am, and how open I am, there's something inherently political about just writing love songs.

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.

My writing did turn out to be quite intact, as it has all my experiences gathered at one place.

Writing from a personal experience can bring about this emotion and power of emotion that can be instantly connected to the instrument, my voice.