Yuna Quotes

Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or somebody you know about - something that you feel deeply and passionately about. Never try and force it.

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

I write about what I know.

I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?

Don't imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.

To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable.

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

When I approach my music and my music videos, obviously all of the subjects and stories that I tell come from an honest, truthful place and the experiences that I've had.

I always pull from something I know really well. Because I would never want to write about something that I hadn't experienced or that I hadn't witnessed happen to somebody else because it wouldn't be genuine.

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried to make stuff up it just kind of falls flat. So the majority of my work is something that happened to me, I saw happen to someone else, or a friend of mine told me happened. There is a certain amount of theatrical and poetic license. People are supposed to like it, that's why you're doing it. It's supposed to be fun. It's not brain surgery, it's heart surgery. They're just songs.

If I go into a studio and find my truth of the moment, there are a number of people in the world who can relate to what I'm saying and are going to buy into what I'm doing. Not because it's the new thing of the moment, but because it's genuine emotion. Its how I feel. This is how I articulate the world.

Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.

You can only really write about what you know about.

You need to write about something that you really know about or you deeply connect with. Don't fake it.

When I'm writing, it's because I'm trying to figure something out for myself. If I don't believe in what I've written, then how can I expect anyone else to believe in that, either?

The writing process really became natural when it was real and from my heart, and I was exposed.

You can only really sing about what you know; at least, I can.

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

I try to write about things that actually happened so that I know it's real before I put it down on paper.