Julia Cameron Quotes

The broken heart on my right finger represents me before I figured out who I was, and the full heart on my left is because I'm left-handed, I use that to write my music, and my music helped me obtain my direction in life.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that - that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

I stumbled onto the best profession to heal my childhood: the only one that lets you release and express whatever is ugly and messy and beautiful about your life. We're in the business of creating human beings. The more we spew, and the more honestly we do it, the better. Try that on Wall Street.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

You are the artist and the art.

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself alone, not for anyone else, and that was the difference. It didn't matter if I found the words, and more than that, I knew it would be impossible to find the right ones.

I feel most real to myself in the studio.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

I want to continue to be me and share with people.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

Art helped give me confidence.