Wayne Static Quotes

I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.

I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

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

I write my songs because I've lived them.

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

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

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.

I write chronologically in my life, so whatever's going on, I write about it. Usually, that's when I feel the most cohesive body of work is formed. I got to live this crazy life, I got to write about it, and now I've got this record that I'm really proud of, too. It's not done, but when I put it out, it's gonna be good.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

For a while there, our writing got really edgy... I've always written about experiences, so when your life gets a bit crazy, you start to write songs that are a bit edgy.

When you're writing songs for yourself, as all artists do, it's about 'me.' It's about what you feel and your emotions. You're trying to get something out of your system about your experiences.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

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

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

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.

I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is.

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

I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

It's a really personal thing for me to write a song.