Paul Rust Quotes

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else, and I don't have great language, highfalutin' language - I'm very ordinary. So I figure if I write about myself, other people with similar feelings and experiences would go, 'Oh, that's me.'

The only thing I wanted to do in my music is be human and communicate all the aspects of that, which often means being vulnerable.

I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way.

I've talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that's what people connect to. When you write a sermon or a lesson, that may not reach people. I've learned a lot from people who have been writing about themselves.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

I'm a singer. I'm a musician. I'm a writer. Maybe - I don't know - I couldn't give a child what it needed.

I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There's a yearning, or something, that comes out of me that people relate to.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.