The songs always have to come from a real experience.

A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only…

— Jonathan Franzen

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now.…

— Alison Krauss

Just like any songwriter, the songs come out of where I am in my life and what I'm doing and who I'm hanging out…

— David Longstreth

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only…

— Adam Duritz

There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I…

— Lata Mangeshkar

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

— Judy Collins

We actually have some pretty good songs. But if they come out too serious, then we have to scrap them.

— Kyle Gass

The way black people feel, especially, is if you're going to tell a black story, let it come from a real place.

— Algee Smith

You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.

— Carson McCullers

I come out of real life.

— Elizabeth Edwards

With acting, a lot of it has to come from that real, honest place.

— Sam Esmail

Boytoys come and go only a real man stays down for you.

— Aqsa Mughal

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

— Robert Crumb

Because face it, Facebook don't come up with its real face! :-p

— Screw_Baggage

Boytoys come and go but a real amn stays down for you

— Anonymous