Sheryl Lee Quotes

I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.

What I like about music is that you make a song, you've got your ideas in it, and people make that song part of their life - they hang out with their friends to it, they get in arguments to it, they get married to it, they get divorced to it. It's in their world, and it takes on its own life.

Everyone's music is made of their own life experiences.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way.

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.

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

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.

The first movie I ever cried at was when I was 10 years old and saw 'The Notebook' in theaters. I was like, 'Whoa, so weird. Crying at a movie? I'm not supposed to do that. So weird.' I didn't know that art could make you do that.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

As a kid, I didn't know much about Prince - who he was and all the complexities of his personality - but I could still feel very close to him when I listened to his music.

I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.

Anything that's really made an impact on my life, I want to get in the studio and write about it.

My music has been inspired by true events in my life.

In my films, a lot of the situations come from real life.

I wanted to sing about things that moved me and experiences I had collected throughout life.

I decided with 'Savage Season' to use a lot of things in my life as the basis.

The reason we fall in love with certain music and writing is we connect with it on a very personal level.

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

My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life’s experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener.