Seph Lawless Quotes

No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.

Acting is all about creative ideas and sharing, so the more places those ideas come from, the better.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

Music is a dialogue.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I love to be in front of big galleries.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

It's all about doing work, being creative and staying true to who you are and having fun. That's what us actors are all about.

Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

For a stage actor to be there with the words and the creator of the words - it doesn't get much better than that.

When you walk off the stage, I think the end point is that you enjoyed yourself. I get to say that almost every time - either I made a few new fans or something resonated.

You should have something to say, an idea you want to get out, and if you don't, just get out of the way, 'cause there's so many great musicians and writers that are in the queue.