Yolanda Adams Quotes

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

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

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

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

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

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

I write about different things. Anything that has affected me. Anything that I have liked. Anything that I feel strongly about. Any experience.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

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

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time.

Having a child with someone, you're always going to be respectful of that. But the song 'I Bet' was honestly inspired by my life experiences - I can't just say it's from one experience.

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.

And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.