Samuel Butler Quotes

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

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

And I feel that it's inevitable that the work that I do will reflect the life that I live. And the life I live feels very diverse.

A film reflects who you are as a building reflects the soul of its architect. I think what you feel and what you think and what you are is what the film is. It's not for me to talk about.

My music is a whole reflection of who I'm as an individual.

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

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 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.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Actually, if you ask my really close friends, they would say that 'Honeymoon' is more me than anything else I've written.

You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.

People choose whatever projects they've seen that I've done over the years, and whichever one is their favorite is the only one they care about. But I realized that none of those were my voice or representative of what my thoughts and feelings were.

I change my style maybe every month. I'm, like, punk one month, ghetto fab the next, classy the next. I'm just young and finding out who I am.

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

Ultimately, I don't think you can be a character who's completely alien or divorced from your own personality. It's probably true of every writer - it's probably true of every filmmaker, every songwriter - that, ultimately, every character you create is a facet of yourself.