Jesse Harris Quotes

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

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

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time.

Anything that's really made an impact on my life, I want to get in the studio and write about it.

I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.

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

All my songs are where I am.

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time.

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.

The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story I'm telling. Then I start building little bridges - word bridges - to make everything go from one point to the next point to the next point until it reaches the end.

I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

I write my songs because I've lived them.