Diane Kruger Quotes

Since I'm not good at anything else, I hope I can keep singing for a long time.

I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.

Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didn't want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.

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

I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize.

It's harder to put yourself in a place where you could easily be seen as a fake. But that's more interesting to me.

I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

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.