Tiffany Darwish Quotes

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

When I'm writing, it's because I'm trying to figure something out for myself. If I don't believe in what I've written, then how can I expect anyone else to believe in that, either?

Do stuff that is true to your own experiences.

We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.'

I say it's easier to write for other people than write for myself.

I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

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

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.