Country music tell stories. That's something that I can relate to.
I'm a fan of creative writing and telling stories.
I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.
What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.
At the end of the day, I'm a fan of great stories and great songs.
I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.
The music that I first fell in love with was American music, really. Nothing against British acts - I love them and will forever - but on the whole, it was the art of American storytelling in the kind of folk and blues lyrics that, if you scratch a little bit, there's a heartbreaking story there.
When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
I just want to tell great stories.
Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.
I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.
I really love storytelling.
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.
I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it.
It's one thing to narrate a story and another thing to execute it.
I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.
The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.
Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.
People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.
I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to do with your life, and that's, I think, what keeps me hopeful.
That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
