Art Garfunkel Quotes

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.

People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.

In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.