Avril Lavigne Quotes

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

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

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

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.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

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

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

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

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

I write about what I'm going through.

I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give. I think that's what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.

In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

It's the most personal thing that I do is sing. Because I can't tell a lie. I want them to know exactly what I'm feeling.

I found in my writing that I could express emotions that, as an everyday person, I have no interest in expressing: these strange things that girls talk about called feelings.

We've always written from personal experiences.

I do always write from a personal place.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

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

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.