Loretta Lynn Quotes

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit, and it's pretty graphic about a relationship. For my first song, it was very special the way it happened, because I didn't really hold anything back, and people responded to it.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?

I think, there are a couple of songs. I'm really proud of How far I'll Go. I literally locked myself up in my childhood bedroom at my parents' house to write those lyrics. I wanted to get to my angstiest possible place. So I went method on that.

Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal.

I would feel really dishonest writing a song that was really sassy, or really confident, because I'm not a supremely confident being. I think that's what people find interesting about what I do; it's very different lyrically.

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.

I write songs about what I go through.

You do try to write songs that you feel like people can relate to and you try to be as honest as you can so that people hear your records and they feel like, "Oh, my god. This is exactly how I feel. I went through this."

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

So many of my songs are based on things that either happened to me or to someone I know, but there are also ones where I've written a made-up story. All of them are about very real emotions, and I just find different ways to express them.

Most of the things I sing in my songs, I've lived.

Yeah, 'Mine' was inspired by a person, but it became much deeper than that. I obviously pulled lyrics... from stuff I was actually saying to this person and feeling about this person, but it was for people. I didn't want to make that song to impress that girl; I wanted to make that song to make people feel better.

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

I don't know, I've always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.

I don't write about anything I haven't been through.

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

I know my fans look up to me and that's why I make my songs so personal; it's all about things I've experienced and things I like or hate. I write for myself and hope that my fans like what I have to say.

I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.

I think the more emotional you are, the better. I'm sort of writing [songs] as I go and I can never tell how it's going to be or how it's going to feel until I get into the studio. But I definitely think it will. I probably can't help but have the emotions in my voice.