Lesley Gore Quotes

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

Writing is a good creative outlet... it's a supplement to my music.

I am a writer. It's like a third arm to me.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

If I'm thinking or feeling something, I have to record it somewhere. If I don't, I worry the thought will be lost and I'll never get it back again. I never self-edit and I don't write in one place or in a special book.

I've been singing since I was five. It's my identity.

I'm not the sad sack that people might think I am. But I think that if I didn't write and perform, I probably would be.

To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know how to.

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.

You paint something, and it's yours. It's your heart up on the wall.

When you have a relationship with music, and it's that deeply a part of your life, it's so much more than a career choice for me. It's an extension of who I am.

I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.

'Nanette' has been a journey. She went from being something of a personal little blast to the world from me, that I expected would seal me off into the margins as far as my career is concerned, and into an idiosyncratic sort of life beyond all of that.

I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct.

I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write.

My music is a whole reflection of who I'm as an individual.

I've always had a passion for music - it's a real part of me.

My art completes my life.

I didn't really want anyone to know that I wanted to write music or make songs because, in a way, I didn't necessarily know if I wanted to do it for a profession. I wanted to do it to express myself.

Music and fashion and art - they were the things we were willing to die for. 'Is my hair all right? Have you heard this tune?' They're the things that saved us. They're the things that are saving kids on Nuneaton council estates. There's no other way out.