Bill Kaulitz Quotes

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

Great trouble breeds great art, I think.

I think suffering has always been an incentive for my creativity.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Art is born of humiliation.

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects.

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

I don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

You need to suffer to be interesting.

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.