Kailash Kher Quotes

I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.

I take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the word, but there's a really important element of something kind of mysterious. It's not academic or esoteric.

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

I just go where the guitar takes me.

Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn't acted, I would have gone insane. In my acting class, I could let out my real tears and everyone thought it was the character. But no, it was me.

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.

It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time.

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

I think a lot of writing, or a lot of young writers, especially, hold themselves back unnecessarily because they're so upset about the idea that they might be sentimental or so concerned about being criticized that way or even being that way that they just shy away from any strong expression or emotion.

When we make a record, we don't discuss how we are planning on doing it. It's a very natural and organic growth.

If I get in the studio, it's very organic. I like to go off how I feel.

There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.

Whenever I really want to, I can paint. It kinda just goes by my emotions and feelings at the time.

I always just experiment with different sounds and styles until I find something that evokes the feeling I'm going for. I'm not trying to think too much about what anyone else is doing.

I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.

If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.

I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.

I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.

I think the more emotional you are, the better. I'm sort of writing [songs] as I go and I can never tell how it's going to be or how it's going to feel until I get into the studio. But I definitely think it will. I probably can't help but have the emotions in my voice.

For me, making a movie is kind of like vomiting. Not that film is like vomit, but more like this mass of ideas and thoughts that you have and just have to put them out there. It's not even about making perfect sense - it's more about making perfect nonsense. I don't do too much soul-searching or self-analysis. I just enjoy making things.

When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

I actually prefer it if I don't know what I'm supposed to do. If you've got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then you know what you're going to get if you play certain chords. But I actually like it if you don't know where the notes are, because then you do it intuitively. You're working out a new language, basically. New rules.