Jeremy Jordan Quotes

I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.

My songs are just little letters to me.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.

I won't get into it any more than to say that there are parts of me in all the songs that I write.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

I don't really like to talk about what my songs are about.

I feel it's much easier to be honest or be myself in songs when I'm playing. That's why I felt, 'You know, I'm going to write the truth.'

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

There's so much stuff that you see every day that you want to talk about, but I'm not the type to open up, so the only way I could open up is through music.

'Crush' is probably the most honest project I've ever written. It's my voice.

I won't write every one of my personal experiences into songs as I think it could be a bit depressing - and its nice to not be too open.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.