James Bay Quotes

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

My best writing has to do with an internal process that I'm working out unconsciously and put into my characters.

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

I am always writing to myself.

The writing process is more... it becomes a case of more like a diary for me. I mean, I write stuff down all day whenever I'm experiencing something that I think would be important for me to look at later on. You know, whether it be for writing lyrics or just for a memory, like, 'Oh, my gosh, I can't believe I was feeling that way at that time'.

When you listen to records like 'Foreclosure,' that's like me sitting in a room by myself just rapping about things that's running across my mind and things that have been bothering me.

I think it's easier for me to write from experience.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I'm going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it's a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

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

Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with other guys to say.

The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

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

Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do so, the reason being, I take it, that writing, even of the most impersonal sort, is for me a divestment, a striptease, even, so that if I start off undressed, I have nowhere to go.