Vinnie Paul Quotes

I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.

Songwriters tell the truth.

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.

My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

All I do is make music.

I'm attracted to music made by people who let themselves be emotional. They really care about what they do, and we believe in what they say.

I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.

I just keep it real, and I have written songs from my heart and performed them how they should be performed.

I started songwriting at around age 12, and that was it. I never really stopped. Nothing else ever really crossed my mind. It's truly the expression of who I am.

I wanna make music that I feel proud of when I'm onstage, that I feel like I put my all into.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.

I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

I always wanted to devote a certain part of my life to dance - my true being is to be a dancer.

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.

Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

Music is what I do naturally.