Kevin Gates Quotes

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'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

I usually find several ways to express myself: different moods, different days, different voices, different things, 'I'm lighthearted today, I'm gonna do this.'

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way.

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

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

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

I've never been a confessional writer.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

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

My dream is to one day just be me and my guitar. I'm working myself to the core. Who am I, underneath everything else? I'm still on that journey, to find that core.

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

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.

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.