Tommy Lee Quotes

How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present.

I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.

I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

Just write what comes to you.

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

Emotional sounds don't lie.

What I say is how I feel.

I sort of feel that I have to constantly be really, really honest with the way I feel, and I have to get that out.

Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

That's what I am. I warn people. Whenever I see and I feel things in my heart, I speak it.

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

The main thing is to be myself. What I mean by that is, to be honest when called upon to express your feelings. The other thing is - maybe this should come first - to be a good listener. To close your mouth and to listen, and to be able to echo back what your partner says to you.

I want to be remembered as an artist that gave you a piece of me, as opposed to some surface bullshit. I just want to be remembered as a poet that was open and honest because I wake up every morning and I'm me.

Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.

I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.

When I open my mouth and sing, the truth comes out. When I write, the truth comes out. I can't lie. That, I think, is one of the strongest elements of my music. When people talk about my writing as though I'm doing it from an accountant's perspective, it really pisses me off.

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

I better be honest about my feelings, even those involving loneliness, jealousy, and fear.