My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
I think that's what makes my music different from other artists in my lane is that I write every word that's on my album, and every word comes from a real experience or a real feeling that I've either experienced or felt. And I'm very particular about that, and I take a lot of pride in it, so you know if I say something on a song, I mean it.
The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.
There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
I have good memories of Real Madrid. Professionally, it was a difficult period, but my experience there was very good in all senses, as I grew a lot, learned many things, and lived with great champions.
In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.
My process of songwriting comes from a very real place: a place that when you watch 'American Idol' - God bless it, it's probably an awesome experience that these people are having, but it's not a real one.
My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch comedy. And sometimes the characters were outrageous, but they always came from a real place. So even working there, we had to create characters from the people that we knew.
The real question should be, what does Washington experience have to do with meeting the needs of the American people?
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.
Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time.
If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.
A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
'Torches' opened a lot of doors. Ultimately, it turned into an experience to be reckoned with.
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
