Damien Rice Quotes

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

I'm always curious about anyone who has enough passion to go onstage and say, 'This is what I'm really passionate about.' It's always worth listening to.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

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

I had a passion and a soul in me that was screaming to be heard, and I had to let them out in as honest and challenging a way as I could.

I'm just here to do the best that I can do with the music that I make, and I'm not making it for any other reason than I feel like I have to. These ideas have to be created because they're in me, and if I leave them in my head, I'll go crazy.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

Find a way to express what moves you.

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

I feel like the need to want to create and make something is stronger than the difficulties are going through.

I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.

Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.