Le'Veon Bell Quotes

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.

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.

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

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.

Sometimes songwriting can turn into a gossip column, and I try to avoid that as much as I can.

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

When you hear me sit at the piano by myself and do one of those super-personal, confessional songs, that's where my true voice is.

Sometimes I think it's the responsibility of the artist to reveal a little more of themselves.

For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

I was already in a groove and decided to initially write down everything, as I would in an actual diary, and then go back and take out what I was too shy to reveal. But I wound up leaving more in than I imagined, and that was because I wanted to be transparent and real.

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

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

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

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

They say, 'Write what you know.' What I know isn't cheerleader; it has a little bit of teeth to it.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.