CeeLo Green Quotes

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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 go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

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.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

'Wild Hope' just felt like such a selfish venture to me. It was a way for me to get out of my head, get some clarity on certain situations, and finally be a part of something that I was completely behind creatively and proud of.

I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.