Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

At the end of the day, I use music to be able to communicate to people.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.

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

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.

I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

My songs are just little letters to me.

In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.

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

I write to feel alone.