Lola Kirke Quotes

I was putting forward too much of myself when I was singing.

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

Having something commissioned made it easier for me to share my work and see it out there and have people read it without feeling like there was a piece of my soul on the page.

I have to be vulnerable to allow myself to give the best performance I, and that doesn't stop in between takes, and it doesn't stop when I am finished for the night.

Writing is very different to having your photo taken. You are exposing yourself more, not physically but emotionally.

If you're up on a stage, naked and solo and singing songs to people, there's not much place to hide, so you may as well confess what you want to confess and say what you want to say, whatever that is. Some songs just turn out as being more about me, and some are more through the eyes of other people, or third-person descriptions of people.

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal.

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.

I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I'm singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn't matter what you are as long as you're truthful in that moment. But with singing, you always have to hit the note. It's not like you can just go, 'Oh, it doesn't really matter what note you sing!'

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

Creativity's about ownership.

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.

I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.

Whether it's writing a monologue or writing standup or writing a screenplay or writing a play, I think staying involved in the creation of your own work empowers you in a way, even if you don't ever do it. It gives you a sense of ownership and a sense of purpose, which I think as an actor is really important.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

When I work on my own stuff - and I think this is true for anybody - but when you work on something that you just completely own, you are trying to stay as true to your own storytelling voice as you can.