Anya Taylor-Joy Quotes

I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.

I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.

You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it be painting, dancing, acting, or singing.

I express myself through song when I can't let people in on my thoughts otherwise. I need the creative process.

I loved music before I stumbled onto acting.

I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do, just to stay sane. It's my over-pressure valve.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

I think I have a lot of internal energy, which does need to come out.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.