Frank Iero Quotes

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.

Those of us who make films try to make something that we're feeling and that we would like. Then we just hope an audience responds the same way. It's very important to have the electrical circuit made, but I don't have control over how people feel when they flip the switch. So the whole idea of marketing research and test screenings is just foreign to me.

I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives. When I'm fortunate for that to happen, then of course I feel very, very good about it.

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

I don't want to tell fans what to think or what to believe or whatever, but at the same time, some things just hit you very personally.

I'm always looking for people to feel connected to me and inspired in their own right.

I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres. But the thing is, I think art is more long-lasting. It stays in people, and it changes them.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don't show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.

I'm just always making things that are personal but hopefully also inspiring, and share not just my story, but other people's stories.

...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.