Marvin Minsky Quotes

I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.

It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.

Yes, doing a work, telling a story very much represents a way to save my own life, and on so many levels.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

I'm a storyteller.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's about superheroes or historical conflicts or monkey gods.

It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.

To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.

I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain circumstances with particular physical traits, unique developmental experiences, geographical and historical contexts.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.

I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was something inside me that wanted me to tell who I was, and that would have come out even if I didn't want it.

Writing gave me a life.

I connect to the tradition of Irish storytelling. And I think there is something - I can't put my finger on it - something genetic there. Maybe just a need to tell stories.

Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.