Taboo Quotes

I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I've had that I'm so thankful for.

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.

If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general.

The writing process really became natural when it was real and from my heart, and I was exposed.

A lot of my music is inspired by personal situations in my life.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

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

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.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

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

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.

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.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

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

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.