Bibi Bourelly Quotes

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.

Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

Pain's always been the root of my music. I just write what I feel.

I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.

'Supermodel' was a hard record for me; it was an emotional record to write. I was purging a lot of stuff with that album, and I think the one thing I didn't really consider, that I'd be supporting it for two years and living in that state of mind every night.

I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.

People say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful!

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.

Everybody has a story... and a scream.

I don't even like to cry in private.