Rebecca Stead Quotes

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

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

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

Madame Bovary is myself.

I am always writing to myself.

As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.

If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

'Sally' is just a song that I wrote talking to my alter ego. When I write, I don't really consciously say, 'This is what I've been going through in my life, and I'm gonna put this into words.' It's just a song that I kinda went in and did. Then, listening back to it, I realized, 'I'm talking to myself.'

I'm not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself.

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

The place you have to start to be any good at this, at acting, is with yourself. Everything is inside of you, all of it - the murderer, the great mother, the therapist, the husband. Everything is inside of us.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.

I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.