Zoe Lister-Jones Quotes

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

I take inspiration from my own experiences and from other people's experiences.

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.

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.

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

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.

Anyone can write your own life story.

Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.

I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.

I made the character as much of myself as I could.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.