Sean Paul Quotes

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

I come out of real life.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

My life is an open pamphlet.

Where he tells you exactly how he views the world - just very straight Kanye, honesty that definitely gets your creativity and strong opinions out on the floor. I think it helped me find myself.

When you're younger, you want to project an image of yourself through your work, but now, I just want to make something honest.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

The creative process has been a little bit of an experience, really - to try and make that work for me. The only way I know how to do that is just to remain genuine, humble, and true to everything I know already in my life.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

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