Alex Meraz Quotes

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

I like to paint and spend a lot of time doing art. For me, it's about hearing yourself and putting it out there as art. It's like a therapy thing.

My personal life, my musical life, my life as an artist - almost everything has pointed all these little arrows that make up which way I go as a person and what I feel comfortable as my identity.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

'Wild Hope' just felt like such a selfish venture to me. It was a way for me to get out of my head, get some clarity on certain situations, and finally be a part of something that I was completely behind creatively and proud of.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

Even if a kid doesn't go into acting or the arts like I did, some kids need that environment to find themselves and find what they love to do.

I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.