Amaal Mallik Quotes

When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

Pain's always been the root of my music. I just write what I feel.

Not to be a bummer, but heartbreak is great for inspiration - we all know that - and it's really hard to write songs if I go through a phase where I don't feel much.

Sometimes you can be with someone that you love, but you know it's not healthy for you. You stay with them because you can't stand the thought of them being with someone else. It kills you.

My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of bruiting, depressing ones are more effective. They are easier to write when I am impassioned and angry. It is a good way to channel that negative energy.

A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

Do you have to have emotional turmoil to create music? I'm not sure because I've never been without it

We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.

That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?

While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself.

When I hear somebody like Hayes Carll write a song that's touching and poignant and sad and funny all at the same time, it motivates me to step my game up and try to figure out a way to get more different emotions into one line or one song.

I want to write music based on my life, my past experiences and heartbreaks.

I would say that my music is surreal, it's inspired by dreams, and it's inspired by heartbreak.

I had always previously really fed off of negativity and enjoyed being the guy who everybody hated.

I'll make a whole bunch of beats whenever, but unless I'm living through something or have a female in mind, or have a conversation in my phone I could scroll through, I'm not making music.