Peter Weller Quotes

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

When I went to see certain shows when I was a kid, they changed my life. They made me tap into that place inside myself that I was unable to get to, so music is that tool, that bridge, and that's the kind of music I'm interested in making.

There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

It never ceases to amaze me how art can touch and inspire people.

People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.

When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.

Who am I? I'm a man, an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.

I kind of discovered my voice for the first time, and the more I did it, the better it got.

Art helped give me confidence.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.

Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it's worth a lot.

There's no greater feeling than knowing that you helped in transforming someone and moving them through art. It's a beautiful thing.

Until I discovered hip-hop, I felt I wasn't going to accomplish anything.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.