Greg Iles Quotes

I want people to be able to relate to me and the trials and tribulations and struggles that I go through.

'Warm Bodies' ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.

When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.

'Creep,' unfortunately, was one of my true stories.

I've been honest with a lot of the problems I've had in life. Everybody has problems. They can relate to that.

A soul singer is always singing to their crowd. They're always singing about their woes to you. And I really appreciate that when a singer is making you feel... when they're directing it at me. When they're including me.

I hope in my book [My Beloved World], that the sense that I really feel connected comes through.

People have a lot of shame and suffering around it and I felt that the best thing I could do was to share my experiences, which I have been doing for a long time, and let people know that of all the things that I've endured.

I want to have an impact because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.

I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.

Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

I'm a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don't like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That's what I want it to accomplish.

A wounded healer, I think, is a lot more powerful than a healer that has not been wounded. In 'Weaker Girl,' I was coming from a wounded healer's perspective.

If I'm honest about the people that I love, then I need my characters to live through the same things that the people I love and care about are living with and struggling with.

I look at something like 'Short Term 12,' and that character has a lot of pain, and I wouldn't have known how to portray that if I hadn't experienced pain myself.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

I haven't been in the military, but I've known my share of pain. It allows me to sit with someone who's struggling and not be afraid.

I am drawn to people who are like me - who have experienced the ups and downs of life but have come through the other side.