Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.

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.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

Music means a great deal to me.

I've been writing all my life, and playing bass came later on, when I was about 26. What I recognized with poetry and music that I had a different voice - there were things I wanted to express that I could not as an actor or even as a director. It was another avenue of expression that my soul needs.

I want to design clothes that I wish I could have worn when I was a teenager.

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

Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff in there.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

My job is to express myself.

All my films represent my own needs and wants.

I've always felt an overwhelming need to get out what was inside. The vehicle for me was words on paper - not speech, not art, not dance, not anything else.

I love creating things that come from my gut and my soul.

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.

I really like the art of music, the way that you can express yourself through music.

Music reflects an artist's feelings and their experiences.

Sometimes I have some stuff in my head, man, you wouldn't believe. But I can go to the studio and talk about it. That's my way of releasing.

For me, the importance in learning about the dance is using it as a voice. It's not about a step, it's about a way to express oneself.