My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional…

Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great,…

— Zooey Deschanel

I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word "confessional". I…

— Beth Orton

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

— Taylor Swift

I was obsessed with 'The Velvet Rope' for a year straight, letting Janet Jackson's confessional lyrics lull me to sleep and comfort me when…

— Janet Mock

You're just a recent caught up sprung confessional ex. *DONE

— Anonymous

People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge…

— Max Lucado

When you have power, that's your confessional booth - you can go in there and confess and be cleaned of all sins. If the…

— Teddy Atlas

I'm not a very confessional artist, you know. I don't ever reveal what I'm feeling in my work, or what I think about the…

— Vija Celmins

“Mike Romano slipped into the confessional. The screen behind the lattice grill slid open. “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.” “For the love…

— Galen Watson

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

— Matthea Harvey

I've been accused of my publicist of being too confessional... it's probably my Celtic upbringing.

— Pierce Brosnan

“That pew became a confessional. There, with a fully clothed, fully present Kyle, he left his plans for lifelong commitment to only the Church…

— Debra Anastasia

Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be…

— Rachel Caine

I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs…

— Pope Francis

When I listen to my songs, they seem like pieces of music or art, like a painting that you look at. The reality is…

— Martha Wainwright