Always Quote by Aubrie Sellers

I just keep it real, and I have written songs from my heart and performed them how they should be performed.

— Craig David

I try to make music for people to relate to, and I like to keep it realistic.

— Young M.A

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

— Bruce Springsteen

Sometimes I make up songs, and they're just strictly fiction. Other times, I draw on things that have happened in my life or friends,…

— J. J. Cale

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

— Bruno Mars

I try and absorb all the things that I respect in the artist's I've worked with.When we work with someone on, Live From Daryl's…

— Eliot Lewis

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from…

— Rivers Cuomo

The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art that represents…

— Steve Grand

In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from…

— Estelle

I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more…

— Lady G

I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my…

— Neil Diamond

I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of good songwriters, and I try to actually work on the craft of…

— Jason Isbell