Bruno Mars Quotes

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

Whatever I'm feeling, whatever I'm going through, whatever mood I'm in... If I'm feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I'm feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

Pain's always been the root of my music. I just write what I feel.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

I don't think that my music without pain is good music - and I wouldn't know, because I haven't made any music without pain.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of those characters. But I was in every single one of those characters in 'Crash,' because those were all fears that I had felt. Things that I had thought in my deepest, darkest heart.

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.

There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?

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.

I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.