Bob Ehrlich Quotes

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.

There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.

Naturally, I've always felt more like a writer myself, and I've always written. I have people who are writers who've been promoting that side of me. I also draw, too. Those things I feel most comfortable in.

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

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

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 got to write most of everything I said.

If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.

Writing is how I metabolize life and how I give and receive.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

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.

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.