John Barrowman Quotes

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

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

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.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

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

I choose to express myself.

I'm starting to find my own style.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I come out of real life.

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 play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

I only know how to be Sizzle.

My music is a whole reflection of who I'm as an individual.

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.