Hideo Kojima Quotes

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

A lot of my music is inspired by personal situations in my life.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't help myself. It's been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It's a condition in me.

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.

I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is.

You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.