John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something I've experienced.

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

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

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

With 'Girls,' I have been able to plug into almost everything I've felt that's personal and sensitive.

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

I never have used any other artist as a model for a sound or a song. It always has to come from an emotion, and capturing the essence of that emotion in a song.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

'Warm Bodies' ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.

Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.

My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.

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

I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.