Kurt Vile Quotes

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.

I started writing for myself when I didn't know how to understand how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to talk to people about it, so I would break into the subconscious to try and understand what I was going through.

When you're down on yourself, and when you are hunkering down and pulling back, you're not going to make any better decisions than when you were aggressively, belligerently putting yourself forward.

Sometimes, when you are not feeling really good is when you tend to write songs because you are internalising everything, and you are examining your thought process, and you are quieter and quite still, so it is when you write things down.

The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.

When you write, you don't really think of how honest you are being - it's only when you record that you understand how much of yourself you're giving.

If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.

I think the best mood for writing is a heavy feeling that's a little bit removed from you. Sometimes I feel very self-indulgent and bratty and ungrateful, and no good music comes out of that. But sometimes I can be really sad or have an excess of feeling yet somehow be able to see the big picture more.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton of stuff going on in my life that I don't write about. If I need to write that stuff down, I write about myself in my diary.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

I don't think I have regrets.

Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.

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

I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.