personal quotes

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

Facts are not interesting to me.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I’m talking about myself very directly.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

The song ‚Innocent‘ is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

I’m writing an unauthorized autobiography.

I’ve been writing poems since I was in the Navy – to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

I’ve never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.