India Arie Quotes

We just write about the stuff that happens to us.

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

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.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible.

I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

We've always written from personal experiences.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

Some of the songs are inspired by personal things that have happened. Others have been inspired by other people's stories, you know, like someone that witnesses something and so I tell the story through my own eyes. And some songs are just about how I feel about the world and others about the places that we have travelled to.

I think it's easier for me to write from experience.

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

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

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

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

In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece.

With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.