Humor Quote by Ben Hopkins

People threw food at me and sang songs about how ugly I was.

— Lele Pons

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

— Peter Frampton

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express…

— Annie Lennox

When you're writing songs for yourself, as all artists do, it's about 'me.' It's about what you feel and your emotions. You're trying to…

— Curt Smith

You've got to make sure that you don't have an airbrushed picture making you look like a 15-year-old cherub when your lyrics suggest otherwise.

— Paolo Nutini

“Funny how a beautiful song could tell such an ugly story.”

— Sarah Dessen

Everything about you is ugly and it has nothing to do with your features, it has everything to do with your attitude and self-hatred.

— Tommy Sotomayor

It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know until you…

— Hillary Scott

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I was hanging around the hot girls once and after the fourth time they heard me make some kind of self-deprecating reference about myself,…

— Esther Povitsky

In my earlier days of writing for myself, I wanted songs to be more complex. I thought they had to be for me to…

— Lady Gaga

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

— Friedrich Nietzsche