David Longstreth Quotes

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

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.

There is more to life than a job. I didn't ever want to look back and point to a bookshelf of videotapes and say, 'That's been my life.' It's so much easier to write a resume than it is to craft a spirit.

I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

Most of the songs I wrote are personal.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reckless with things. I'm a passionate person. I'm a super passionate person. I think there's definitely been sorrow in my life, good and bad. I think it comes through. I hope it comes through in my writing because to me that's what artistry is.

If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

My music is an extension of who I am and what I went through and what I know musically.

'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set out to become a director.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.

All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality.

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.