John Chamberlain Quotes

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust.

Many artists, when they are creating art, are searching for a vehicle that can manifest a feeling they have inside of themselves.

Composing is an emotional thing.

Most artists - painters or writers - I think create out of stress or negative situations. Look at rock music. It's about getting things off of your chest, and it's a means of venting in many ways. That's what my work is about.

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the world.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.

Writing is how I metabolize life and how I give and receive.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and writing.

If I hadn't had acting, I would probably have imploded.

When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff in there.