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


Tyler Perry
I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.
James Maslow
My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.
Jessie Pavelka
Tags: Work Me Because
Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.
Raven-Symone
Tags: Music About Just
My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
Vince Vaughn
I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
Amy Winehouse
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You have to be really willing to embrace life and life's turns, and play that for your audience, because there is value in every moment of that journey.
Lesley Ann Warren
I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.
Lorde
Tags: You About Want
You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.
Diana Krall
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Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.


Galen Rowell
Tags: Very Write Give
I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.
Tom Perrotta
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If you want to experience joy in your life, you have to be able to step outside yourself and become part of a cause that is much larger than you; one that brings a greater good to a greater community.
Srikumar Rao
I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will change your life.
Michael Robotham
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I discover what I mean as I write. That can be both terrifically exciting and very dangerous, because when you look at your words later, you wonder, 'Did I really mean that, or am I just making verbal patterns?'
Peter Shaffer
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I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
Jean M. Auel
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
Bebe Moore Campbell
Tags: Change You About
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Every time I write a song my approach changes.


Shawn Mendes
Tags: Time Every Write
I write at the piano, so I write things that fit comfortably under my hands, and I'm not thinking in terms of any specific compositional methods. I'm just seeking sounds.
Esperanza Spalding
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I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
Reeve Carney
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.


R. Kelly
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