Will Patton Quotes

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

My life is my message.

Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.'

My act is based on my life.

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

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.