Yungblud Quotes

I do make films for personal reasons.

Social media gives a lot of people a platform where they can express their feelings. I like to do mine through songs. I let info build up. In some way, it translates into paper whenever I sit down.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven't found it yet in acting. When you're playing a character, you're only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world.

Composing is an emotional thing.

When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it be painting, dancing, acting, or singing.

I make music... and it helps me figure out life.

I express myself through song when I can't let people in on my thoughts otherwise. I need the creative process.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

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

It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

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.

My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.