Jamie Lynn Spears Quotes

I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.

I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it was just a feeling that felt good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.

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

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.

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

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

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.

The places I visit in any given week are my home, so when I'm somewhere that feels good to me, it's a real game changer. If a place causes me to have a strong reaction, be it positive or negative, it'll often find its way into my music.

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'

There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.