Kaskade Quotes

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

My work is has always been very, very personal.

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.

I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

My work is intensely personal.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.

A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself - one has to try to love the object of one's attention a little bit less.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

I think, as an actor, you are constantly playing other people. I would like people to get to know me on a more personal level.

I'm interested in extrovert characters, people who are doing something. But I used to only be able to photograph people I was interested in or attracted to, either psychologically or physically. That all changed when I did the 'Go Sees.'

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

All my songs mean something to me.

'No Matter What' is, without question, the most personal song I have ever written and the one I am most proud of.