James Blunt Quotes

I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

I just write about how I'm feeling at the time. If I feel like being cheeky and a bit straight up and a bit aggressive, you'll hear that in my music. If I feel like being very vulnerable and opening up about something personal, you'll hear that, too.

I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

I've always written down how I feel.

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

I am my therapist, and I analyze what's happening and if I'm being hurt in the process. The result is songs that are very emotional, very deep, although I try to write them generally so they won't alienate the listener.

I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way.

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

'Crush' is probably the most honest project I've ever written. It's my voice.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

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.

I live my life pretty emotionally, for better and for worse. I'm pretty thin-skinned and transparent. I lead with my heart, and I wanted to make a movie that did the same.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close.

You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

I'm a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don't like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That's what I want it to accomplish.