Lea Michele Quotes

I know my fans look up to me and that's why I make my songs so personal; it's all about things I've experienced and things I like or hate. I write for myself and hope that my fans like what I have to say.

Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.

I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that.

It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

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.

There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.

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

I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work.

There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.

My work is intensely personal.

I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as expressive and personal as I can, even if I can't explain, for example, how important it is for me to be Jewish.

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

I really do pride myself on being able to help other people tell their stories and bring out the best in them. But I still, every song I'm writing, I still need to relate to it. I still need to find my true self in it, or else it'll feel dishonest. I mean, everything has a queer meaning as far as I'm concerned.

There's some of me in all my characters.

If I write for beauty and truth, the songs will find their way to me. Then, it's the songs that speak to the audience, and they can become part of the tribe that is into what I do.

As a musician, it's only natural that my music mirrors my life.

Certainly in the case of having to answer questions about where a song comes from, it's a hell of a lot easier when you say, 'I've removed myself from it.' But they start from quite a personal place. They always do.

I think every song I do is specifically tailored to what I would say and how I approach situations.

If I don't relate to a song, I won't sing it. The thing is that if I wrote it, I'm always going to relate to it.

I listen to music because that's such a huge part of my process; not to sound super pretentious, but that's a big part of what helps me get in character.

I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game, the creator puts more of themselves into the piece, so when the audience see it, they feel something real, they feel something human, they feel something that's like a person.

This album is my life, and my life's really not that interesting. It's not "not interesting," but I'm just some dude just like everyone else. But by recording it in an album format, it becomes a product. That's the idea of Built on Glass; it's the relationship between my personal life and the music I make.

I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that is real in the lives of millions of people.

All my work comes out of my life.