King Princess Quotes

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

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

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

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

All of my records have their own vibe, depending on what was going on in my life.

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

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

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

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.

One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life.

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

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.

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.