Kerby Jean-Raymond Quotes

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

My work is intensely personal.

Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

My work is has always been very, very personal.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

People should listen to my music if they just want to know me better.

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.

The people in my songs are all me.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.