Ben Marcus Quotes

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

I write about what I'm going through.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.

We've always written from personal experiences.

A lot of what I write is very personal.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

A novel, especially a first novel, is... really an emotional autobiography. All these emotions I'm embarrassed at having had, I've written about.

All of my songs were about my firsthand experiences. Pretty much, I've learned how to become my own muse and take situations from my own life and wear them on my sleeve.

I think 'Lost Boy' is more of a metaphor for oneself. When I listen to that song, I don't picture someone else. I kind of wrote it from a very honest place.

I've never been a confessional writer.

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

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

In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece.

I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.

My work is has always been very, very personal.