Christina Tosi Quotes

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

I include myself in the posters because I feel like it forms a more intimate relationship between the artist and the person passing by. And it's important to include some vulnerability and use fears and rejections and various aspects from my own life so people look at my work as more than greeting card fodder.

There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.

For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.

I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.

Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another.

I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.

I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.

I'm a firm believer in putting your experiences in your writing, of bleeding into the page.

And I feel that it's inevitable that the work that I do will reflect the life that I live. And the life I live feels very diverse.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

I have a lot of written material, and all of it's different. Some records that I have are country, some pop, some alternative rock. I just write what I feel, so I can't specifically say. I just want to be an artist of truth and an artist that stays true to herself.

A film reflects who you are as a building reflects the soul of its architect. I think what you feel and what you think and what you are is what the film is. It's not for me to talk about.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

I think I always wanna write comedy because that's what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know it, so that's what I want to reproduce.

My cookbooks are like a personal journey for me, they're like a chapter in my life.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.