Jade Bird Quotes

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

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

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

I write about what I'm going through.

My mother used to ask, 'Why do you always write such sad songs?' I don't know if I was different from a lot of adolescents in that respect.

I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I'm really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.

The song 'Try Too Hard' I wrote when I was 10 or 11.

Mostly everything I've ever sung comes from a personal place.

All my songs are based on personal experience, and 'Lost Without You' came out fully born.

I write a song for myself because I need to come out with that particular song.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

The stories in the songs come from my real life.

I've never been one to indulge in out and out depression when it comes to songwriting.

When you're writing songs for yourself, as all artists do, it's about 'me.' It's about what you feel and your emotions. You're trying to get something out of your system about your experiences.

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I write songs. I was always attracted to songs that had a brilliant pun or a clever turn of phrase, but came from a dark, bitter place. As a writer, I've always gravitated towards that feeling.

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

I never have used any other artist as a model for a sound or a song. It always has to come from an emotion, and capturing the essence of that emotion in a song.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.