Marcel Wanders Quotes

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

I've never been a confessional writer.

I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

It's always been a mantra to me, when making music or creating art, that you have to be vulnerable.

I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you have to do that on film to make a point, it's hard. It's rough. I don't think it's as easy as people think.

Everything I write is about me.

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.