Artifice Quote by Jenny Hval

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is…

— Enya

With pretty much everything that I've done, in terms of going from being a songwriter and producer for other artists to doing my stuff,…

— Lauv

I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share…

— Taylor Swift

I do think figuring out how to write music is definitely a very personal thing. Everybody does it differently, and it's taken me a…

— Benson Boone

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

— Ben Gibbard

[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is…

— Tyga

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.

— Martha Wainwright

My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.

— Jade Bird

This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write about what…

— Sune Rose Wagner

I like to write from my life and the relationships that make it up. I think its important to use music to change people's…

— Hoodie Allen

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and…

— John Grogan

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at…

— Josh Radnor