Tarsem Singh Quotes

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

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.

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

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I was kind of nervous to put 'Learning' out: it's a lot different. That's who I am. I'm going to push the boundaries.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

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

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

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

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

I'm starting to find my own style.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.

I remember a distinct moment when it was my junior year of college, and the content I was making was changing and not really myself, and I tried to switch back to just putting me out there. I'm happy that happened really early in my career, because that was before I started doing podcasts or writing.

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

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.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.