Tift Merritt Quotes

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

My work is intensely personal.

All my collections are based on something I like or something I'm dealing with. They are always deeply personal.

I feel like the 'Supernova' record, those songs are very me. It's a more honest representation of me than any record I have made prior to that.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

The people in my songs are all me.

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and 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.

My music is a whole reflection of who I'm as an individual.

Mostly everything I've ever sung comes from a personal place.

'Crush' is probably the most honest project I've ever written. It's my voice.

I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.

The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self - everything is the expression of my own Self.

What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

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.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.