Archeology Quote by Jon Foreman

When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience…

— Yolanda Adams

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

— Melissa Etheridge

When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my influences, songwriters…

— Brandi Carlile

With music that I write, I like to have in there something you can relate to, a way to share the experience.

— Mike Romano

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't…

— Bill Callahan

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

— Mark Hoppus

Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.

— David Longstreth

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common…

— Richard Thompson

For me, experience is everything when it comes to writing.

— Kodie Shane

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

— Billy Gibbons

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is…

— Elle King

I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.

— Elle Varner