Anish Kapoor Quotes

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

I don't write about my life in my column.

I share personal things about myself in the context of my interviews and in 'It's Messy' - but that's 20 percent of my life.

You're always trying to make each record more autobiographical than the last one.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal.

I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

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.

I've been so in my moment about my life.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.

I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.