Albums Quote by Ann Wilson

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet…

— Cat Stevens

Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very…

— Alanis Morissette

The first album was literally the first 12 songs I've ever written.

— Mat Kearney

The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

— Taylor Swift

I mean, when we put out our first album, it was 'Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence.

— Charlotte Caffey

A lot of these songs just came from day-to-day experiences. And it was a very natural, kind of organic process.

— Dolores O'Riordan

The stories in the songs come from my real life.

— Jessie Reyez

The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the…

— Will Oldham

I feel like the 'Supernova' record, those songs are very me. It's a more honest representation of me than any record I have made…

— Jim James

'Mr. Misunderstood' - that whole album is incredible and just has amazing songwriting.

— Maren Morris

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was…

— John Prine

They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.

— Sarah McLachlan