Ken Hill Quotes

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

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

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

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.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

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.

Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

I get inspiration from my everyday life.

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's kind of self-therapy.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

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 wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.

I don't put myself into the category of 'rock star writing his biography.' That's because we live our lives by falling into experiences. Things happen to us. Something you do takes hold of you, and then you do a lot of it.

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

The more wild experiences you have, the better songs you can write.

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.