James Bay Quotes

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

I write about personal experiences.

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

I want to write about my experiences since 'Speedbumps.'

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

Anything that's really made an impact on my life, I want to get in the studio and write about it.

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

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.

I'd say most of my songs I write from personal experience. When I feel like I don't have any inspiration in my personal life, I think about others that are close to me and maybe what they're going through or even just people I've come across, acquaintances.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

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

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.

The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.

Live life before making movies, because you cannot make films about life, without having lived one.

Of course I write from experience, but I also do write from things that have happened in the world.

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

I will surely pen my autobiography.