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All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

— Shooter Jennings

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.

— Thomas Mars

It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.

— John Darnielle

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

— Bob Dylan

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

— Melissa Etheridge

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

— Gwen Stefani

My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone through and what I am thinking. I wrote about my family, friends and boys, of course, and about life.

— Lalaine

I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.

— Kaskade

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

— Ben Gibbard

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

— Elliott Smith

✗Opposing Perspectives

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

— Justin Townes Earle