Brenda Ueland Quotes

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.

When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.

The idea - or, if you like, the need - to write and record 'Lash Out' was born of a feeling within me.

Writing is a good creative outlet... it's a supplement to my music.

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.

I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role, because, of course, it's really not me. I'm finding a new way. I don't know what it's going to be. But I know that I will need to give it to people one day.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.

You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

Writing gave me a life.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

I express myself better when I'm singing, so I always want to hold on to the music side.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music.