Herta Muller Quotes

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

I've always believed the words that came out of my mouth were most comfortable when I'd written them.

I've always felt an overwhelming need to get out what was inside. The vehicle for me was words on paper - not speech, not art, not dance, not anything else.

Dancing is more than just moving body parts; it is a pathway of expressing your deepest inner thoughts.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

My songs are just little letters to me.

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

For me, writing is just processing.

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

Many artists, when they are creating art, are searching for a vehicle that can manifest a feeling they have inside of themselves.

I like to draw, and my drawings are what yell and scream for me.

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.

Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff in there.

I don't talk with people about how I am feeling - I just usually write a song about it.

I need all of my songs while I'm writing them, because I need to get the stuff out of my body and out of my brain. I write out of necessity, not because I want to be a pop star.

In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing, I just let it all out.

Music is an expression. It's almost like a diary in my life, you know. You express your perceptions and your view on life - your world view.

There's so much stuff that you see every day that you want to talk about, but I'm not the type to open up, so the only way I could open up is through music.

I'm not the best at expressing my feelings other than in songs or on paper.

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both words and music.

Social media gives a lot of people a platform where they can express their feelings. I like to do mine through songs. I let info build up. In some way, it translates into paper whenever I sit down.

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.