Cody Simpson Quotes

I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time.

With pretty much everything that I've done, in terms of going from being a songwriter and producer for other artists to doing my stuff, all the songs that I've kept to myself have always been me writing about my life.

I won't write every one of my personal experiences into songs as I think it could be a bit depressing - and its nice to not be too open.

When you write, what's going on in your life shines through in the songs.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

I write my music.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

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

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.

I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.

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.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song like 'Middle Age' or 'Responsibility' or 'I Just Work Here,' and it's about how bleak life can be. But it's real.

I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.

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

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.