Judd Nelson Quotes

I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real life stories and real life emotions.

Life writes the best stories.

She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts.

I have a lot of real life experience that I can draw on. And I think that shows in the characters that I play because I'm always trying to find somebody - or find characters to play that I can identify with on a personal level or relate to. And I think it makes for a little bit more of an honest portrayal.

In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.

I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

The people I always loved listening to had a little bit of dirt under their fingernails because they had done some living and had these stories to talk about.

The best stories come from real life.

If I go way back to Loretta Lynn, I always cite her as being able to capture what I think is every woman's story... she very openly used her art as an expression of what she was going through in her life. So that authenticity is something I admire.

I think, with music, I'm a lyricist who talks about real life things.

A lot of times, I have personal things, things I go through that I may exaggerate or make a story around, but it always has a meaning related to something I've been through for real.

We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.

We just write about the stuff that happens to us.

All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself.

I like to write about real-life topics, and I like to write about different walks of life.

I often find in the film world, that it's very self-referring. If you talk to someone about films, they talk about them in terms of other films - rather than as something that happened to them in their life. And I'm really keen to get back to film as a reference to real things, not necessarily to other films.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a great example to use and a great reason to be happy about being a storyteller because the lessons of the land are always in stories.