Chantal Kreviazuk Quotes

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

A lot of what I write is very personal.

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

I'm a firm believer in putting your experiences in your writing, of bleeding into the page.

I have always written from a personal place.

I've talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that's what people connect to. When you write a sermon or a lesson, that may not reach people. I've learned a lot from people who have been writing about themselves.

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

I do always write from a personal place.

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

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

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.

I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love songs cuz I don't really have much boy experience. I just write about what I am actually going through in my real life.

I think my music is so personal that it lets people in. And they identify with me more because of that, you know, so it's like my story; it's who I am as a person.

Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.

I really do pride myself on being able to help other people tell their stories and bring out the best in them. But I still, every song I'm writing, I still need to relate to it. I still need to find my true self in it, or else it'll feel dishonest. I mean, everything has a queer meaning as far as I'm concerned.

From the beginning, my songwriting was from writing in a journal; it was completely unfiltered. I don't know if I really meant to show everyone this side of me, but when I saw how people resonated to the things I was saying, some of the questions I was asking, I realized I was not alone.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.