creative expression quotes

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

I just want to keep writing music.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt – you know, I had to go out and do them.

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called ‚Fingers Crossed,‘ which is on SoundCloud.

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don’t want it smoothed out.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.