Josh Radnor Quotes

I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.

I write for myself - but it is nice when other people like it, too!

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get to write parts for yourself.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.