Nicola Roberts Quotes

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right.

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

Most of the songs I wrote are personal.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.

No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It's underneath all the music I've ever written... An artist is trying to tell you how he's feeling. And if that accidentally becomes entertaining, it becomes a career.

Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

I'd say, at the end of the day, you know, from a songwriting practice standpoint, you write songs to make yourself feel something true and validating, and cathartic, maybe, and then whoever responds to it is, like, out of your control.

Composing is an emotional thing.

I really like the art of music, the way that you can express yourself through music.

As a musician, it's only natural that my music mirrors my life.

Music reflects an artist's feelings and their experiences.

All my songs are based on personal experience, and 'Lost Without You' came out fully born.

A lot of my music is inspired by personal situations in my life.

For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.