Bob Dylan Quotes

Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.

Most of the songs I wrote are personal.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.

I think the two are kind of synonymous for me; songwriting is like my form of diary making. It's how I process the world. Without doing that, I feel kind of lost. The characters that I play often come out in the songs and the challenges that they face, albeit in an abstract way.

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

I'd liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful.

All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.

My favorite part about writing a song is really when it's released, and I can see that it relates to so many people.

I like to write songs that people can identify with and sing along to.

I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself.

I don't have a journal; I write music.

I'd rather be known as a songwriter than a guitarist, although I love to play the guitar.

My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.

I wrote my first song, called Spectator,' when I was 11.

I struggled with a lot of doubts around my songwriting and around what I was and what my purpose and mission were.

When I write a song, I want to write something that is really catchy and says something that might actually touch somebody.

I've got stories on every one of my albums, big ones.

My most prized possession would have to be 'Trick It.' I did rap here and there with some songs before, but 'Trick It' was my first time challenging myself to write lyrics from beginning to end.

I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography.

My favourite place was in The Congo. It's where I began to write songs and build myself as an adult.

I wrote a song a good long while ago, 'I Ain't Livin' Long Like This,' that has been around and been recorded by a lot of people, but it was basically childhood memory.

I realized that music was the only thing I really thought about - music and writing.

Certain key words, like, 'break it down,' 'this is how we do it' - they'll always end up on my tracks.