Steven Spielberg Quotes

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

Art became my therapy. It's an amazing outlet.

It's going to sound cliche, but I started acting as an emotional outlet.

Whatever I want to do or say, I get to do it on the silver screen, so in normal life I don't feel the necessity to do or say anything.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.

I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.

Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when I'm writing. Or I can be the opposite of all those things, when I'm not writing.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

Find a way to express what moves you.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

I've always been shy, but every time that I sing or I perform, when music comes out of me, it is the only thing I can relate to, it's the only thing I can give.

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.

In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience.

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

It's crazy to see people having tattooed my lyrics on their body, and quite frankly writing is just an outlet for my voice and getting it out there.

I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.

The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role, because, of course, it's really not me. I'm finding a new way. I don't know what it's going to be. But I know that I will need to give it to people one day.

You have to let people express themselves in the way that they need to express themselves. You have to express yourself in any way possible, provided you're prepared to live with the consequences.

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.