Camila Cabello Opens Up on How She Gained More Confidence in Herself & Her Songwriting Skills

Camila Cabello is being praised by a lot of amazing people for her songwriting skills, and in a new interview with Newsweek, is opening up about how she’s grown through the skill.

“I started songwriting when I was 15,” she reveals. “Everything stems from the songs and what you want to say. What you want to say changes with age. I could have never written the songs I’m doing now when I was 15.”

Camila adds that as she’s grown, her confidence and her lyrics have as well.

“I’ve always known who I am as an artist. It was just about finding the confidence to say: This is me,” she says. “The trouble is when people are like, ‘This is you, but you should be more like this, because that’s going to work more.’ It’s about having the confidence to be in control of what I say and say, ‘I have an idea for a song today.’”

Camila continues, “I think that developed more and more as I went into the studio. Every time I would go into a session, I don’t think anybody expected me to be able to write, and they’d be like, ‘I was thinking we could do something like this,’ and I’d be like, ‘Yeah, that’s cool, but I really want to write something…I have this idea and this title.’”

When people believed in her, that’s when her lyrics and songs got even stronger.

“It made me believe that, oh, my ideas were good,” she says. “That’s happened more and more this year. I’m confident in my ideas and as an artist. Nobody can really be me for me.”