Aldous Harding Quotes

I won't get into it any more than to say that there are parts of me in all the songs that I write.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really personal for me, that sort of creative outlet where you put your emotions to paper or put to song. I don't do it that much anymore, but to let someone in on that outlet and to have it susceptible to judgment is scary.

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal.

I include myself in the posters because I feel like it forms a more intimate relationship between the artist and the person passing by. And it's important to include some vulnerability and use fears and rejections and various aspects from my own life so people look at my work as more than greeting card fodder.

I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with other guys to say.

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.

It's a really personal thing for me to write a song.

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.

That's something that I think the best artists retain - the ability to invite you into their small, intimate inner space, and let that be what radiates.

I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

You always gonna feel me. That's my main thing. When I'm speaking in my music, you gotta feel me.

I make my songs slightly abstract so that people can interpret them their own way. I think that's a lot more special, so you can hear a song and think, 'I feel exactly that way,' even if it wasn't written for that feeling.

After talking to people and meeting them every day, I realize that a song can be written from one perspective with an objective in mind. What is crazy about it is that many different people can take one song a totally different way. That is so cool, since music is a universal thing and a very personal thing.

I won't write every one of my personal experiences into songs as I think it could be a bit depressing - and its nice to not be too open.

My songs are all personal.

When you write, what's going on in your life shines through in the songs.