Shania Twain Quotes

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.

Writing 'Monitor Mix' was a very edifying and inspiring few years.

Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.

I view making records as a journey.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a few songs I needed to take from incomplete demos to working with someone else and finishing them.

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

I've been adjusting to what it means to be a songwriter, figuring out what I like about it and what I don't like about it and what it means to me as opposed to other people.

When I was making 'Xen,' I was surprised at how introverted some of the songs were. I wasn't deliberately trying to go quieter, but I had to embrace it.

I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

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.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

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

On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.