Armistead Maupin Quotes

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.

I decided with 'Savage Season' to use a lot of things in my life as the basis.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.

I would say that 'After the Storm' is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies.

I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something I've experienced.

The 'Will Powers' story is like my life to a certain degree.

Your music essentially reflects everything you do, everything you've been through, in the deepest part of you.

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

All my songs are where I am.

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

The people in my songs are all me.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.