Sophie Hunger Quotes

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time.

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

Art lies by its own artifice.

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

Lying and art are very allied. But after you lie, you get to the truth.

You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.

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

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

From a guy that still doesn't have his foot in the world, I feel pretty grounded as long as I have music.

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.