Varg Vikernes Quotes

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

There's so much stuff that you see every day that you want to talk about, but I'm not the type to open up, so the only way I could open up is through music.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

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 was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

'Supermodel' was a hard record for me; it was an emotional record to write. I was purging a lot of stuff with that album, and I think the one thing I didn't really consider, that I'd be supporting it for two years and living in that state of mind every night.

Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.

She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.

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

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.