Alice Merton Quotes

As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

The most personal thing about me is my music. The most honest, pure thing in my whole life.

Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I'm nothing but honest.

If you're going to be transparent, you're going to have to let the music come that wants to come.

I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.

I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song like 'Middle Age' or 'Responsibility' or 'I Just Work Here,' and it's about how bleak life can be. But it's real.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook, and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

I'm more honest in my lyrics than I am in anything else. It's where I feel the most safe to express myself.

I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the record, and every now and then, you might make a song that exposes something a little too much about you, and there's a part that doesn't want yourself to be exposed.

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

There's the dual challenge of wanting to speak from an authentic place, and then being able to be honest about it. Even in the most mannered art, I think that's what people value, is a voice that comes from a real place.

Songwriters tell the truth.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.