Kristen Stewart Quotes

I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the world.

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it be painting, dancing, acting, or singing.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

With acting, I started as a kid and it was my safe space and the place where I felt the most free to be all of myself. What gets explored in our show is where that instinct starts and where it meets with career, and how that can change your path a bit.

Every work of art has its necessity; find out your very own. Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would ever see it, if you would never be compensated for it, if nobody ever wanted it. If you come to a clear ‘yes’ in spite of it, then go ahead and don’t doubt it anymore.

Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.

I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.

Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was a great way to make a living. Music saved my life.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.