Peter Sotos Quotes

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

If I don't get in the studio, I don't have no therapy.

To write is to give meaning to suffering.

I've always viewed writing as an outlet for being vulnerable and all that comes with that. You are able to let things all out.

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

I had some great times doing competitions, but I have always been more into making movies because making movies is more about art and expressing yourself in a creative way.

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society.... A society without art will die.

I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that.

In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.

I write because I can’t sleep.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.