Tyler Perry Quotes

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.

I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love songs cuz I don't really have much boy experience. I just write about what I am actually going through in my real life.

I don't put myself into the category of 'rock star writing his biography.' That's because we live our lives by falling into experiences. Things happen to us. Something you do takes hold of you, and then you do a lot of it.

The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

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 is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.

I think the only reason I wanted to do modeling, really, was because I knew I wasn't ready to act; I knew I didn't have enough life experience, and I knew that doing photo shoots was a way of acting. Playing a character each shoot and being able to just emerge yourself in these awkward experiences - it was amazing.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.