Tyler Oakley Quotes

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

One thing I've learned is that the best thing a producer can do is help you be you.

My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

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.

Training readers to expect a voice or subject matter from me would interfere with the reinvention I crave. At the same time, I feel almost too able to disappear at times.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

Where I create, there I am true.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

I wouldn't be myself if I weren't always trying to be someone else. I only have so much time on this earth and I want to be as many people as possible.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

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.

When I stopped hiding who I am, I started writing hits.

My style is all to myself.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.