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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?

— Lily Allen

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✓Similar Perspectives

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.

— Jim Cole

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

— Elliott Smith

A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.

— Camila Cabello

I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell.

— Tony Oller

You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless you're writing a song and there's an exact scenario that you're trying to write a song for.

— Harry Styles

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

— Amy Winehouse

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

— James Maslow

✗Opposing Perspectives

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

— Conor Oberst

I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.

— Neil Diamond

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

— Norah Jones