Bishop Briggs Quotes

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

As I showed the world my art, my heart, I wasn't just an actress. I was actually an artist. And that was my transformation.

I'm so proud of 'As She Pleases.' It's a really personal record, and I put so much of myself into it that; it feels like I am sharing part of my soul with the world by releasing it.

I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the point where a friend can say, "It's very you," and that made me feel good.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.

My work is has always been very, very personal.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact.

I'm expressing myself by acting. I'm learning about myself and making a living. I hope to do much more of it, so I can contribute my share to the world.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

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

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.