Teddy Thompson Quotes

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.

I wrote 'Evil Spider' about wanting someone that's already taken. I guess it was based on a personal experience, but I went a lil extreme on the theme... me being a spider trying to snare someone. In real life, I was just observing!

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

When you write a song about a place, you are writing a song about a place that might be in a hundred years, or a place that has been, or that was - in your imagination. I think that also embodies the American spirit. You are looking for what you can call "a place."

You're the light I can never have and I'm the darkness you'll never succumb to.

In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.

I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

Sure, you always put some of your own experience into a film.

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

In high school, I was lucky enough to have a big group of girlfriends that have really inspired a lot of the stories in my books. I'm still close with my friends from that time, so it's never very hard to put myself back into that place, that voice.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.

When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be judged.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.