Book Quote by Sam Smith

I have back-and-forth feelings about everything a lot - it's not limited to my albums.

— Deadmau5

As a songwriter, I have a duty to keep my heart on my sleeve because no one else will tell that story.

— Griff

I am either blessed or cursed with having little barrier between feeling emotions and displaying them for all to see. My heart is on…

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through.

— Rebecca Ferguson

It's inevitable that if you write an album or a song, obviously it's going to come from how you feel. You're writing it for…

— Nicola Roberts

In the past, I've been a bit diffident about my own albums, almost excusing them for some reason, even though deep down I felt…

— Jesse Harris

To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for…

— Gwen Stefani

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

— Brian McKnight

I don't really write for an album. I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. It's all a…

— Cass McCombs

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot…

— Vanilla Ice

My writing was very much like my diary, and I just put it out there to put it out there because I didn't really…

— Tate McRae

I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out - the more I started writing, the more there was honesty.

— Calum Scott