Jeff Hanneman Quotes

I like to write about things that don't reflect exactly on my life.

The good thing about songwriting is you don't have to delineate between what's true and what's fiction; records aren't put on the shelf that way. Books are, movies are, but records aren't.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

I sing, but I also like to write. Creativity is the best part because you're then in your own zone and can talk about whatever you want to talk about - it lets you be free.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I'm passionate about.

If a man wants to be an artist, he must never look at pictures.

My creativity is an entity unto its own.

I always like to write the songs, and they get turned loose into the world, and who knows what happens to them. That's the joy of being a songwriter. You get to hear what other people do, interpretation-wise.

If I don't create, I don't exist.

There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting you want hanging on the wall. That was really freeing to me when I was writing 'Ready Player One.' I could throw in everything that I love.

In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.