Miguel Zenon Quotes

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

Here's the thing: we don't write music for a universal statement; we just share our experiences. And that's all it is. It's always raw and very authentic.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

I'm interested in music as an extension of character.

You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title.

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

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.

The most personal thing about me is my music. The most honest, pure thing in my whole life.

As an artist, what you do represents who you are. Coming from a genuine, honest place - that's what I'm trying to do.

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest.

I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.