Johnny Flynn Quotes

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

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.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself.

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.