Jerry Spinelli Quotes

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

I believe that everybody needs to tell their story - to be heard, to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be understood. We all want that, deep down inside - and writing a book is a great way to make sense of your own experience and to share it with others.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Writing is a great love of mine.

My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

'Warm Bodies' ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.

I've always written down how I feel.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

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've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

The keyboard is my journal.

Writing is essentially an internal process.

I just love to share my story with people as much as I can.

I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way.

I'm putting out music that I love, and they're basically just stories of my life and how I try and teach myself to think about things. They're kind of like notes to self, basically.

You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano.