Machine Gun Kelly Quotes

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

All of my records have their own vibe, depending on what was going on in my life.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

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

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.

I'm such an emotional person that when it comes to songwriting, I can click into whatever zone I need.

'Fitoor,' in a way, signifies my journey through the years. It's a collection of 10 songs that I have written. It's basically about what I have been experiencing.

I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.

The way to write really good songs is to write about the things that happen in your life and where you are in the moment, and writing about stuff that happens in your 30s is not the sexiest song subject.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

The stories in the songs come from my real life.

You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.

When you write, what's going on in your life shines through in the songs.

A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility.

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just start pulling out little fragments of songs from my head. A lot of times a melody will just occur to me and be my companion for a couple of months.

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it's almost a form of acting when we're doing music videos. We're acting out our own thoughts and what we've written down on paper.