Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere.
I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.
When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.
It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.
As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.
When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.
Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.
The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.