Bryan Konietzko Quotes

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

I think I take little pieces of inspiration, then kind of do what's real to me and what's going on in my life or what I observe from other people's experiences and hope other people connect with it, too.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

I'm a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing. I have a heart and a soul and I want to touch people and give.

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.

When I can write a song in a way where I feel like other people can relate to it, and I can take it past being cathartic just for me, that's when I know I can share it. Otherwise, I'd just feel like it's selfish.

Honestly, my goal is just to let people hear my story and just like, feed everybody that could relate to my story in any way.

We started making content because we wanted to see it, and so our content ended up being genuine.

You're creating ' it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You're not manufacturing somebody else's plan, somebody else's blueprint, somebody else's idea that's not yours. So when you're creating, that's the beauty side of art, you know? It comes from within you.

I love creating things that come from my gut and my soul.

You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in the details and make something that feels like it's yours.

My songwriting is personal in the hope that listeners will know that I relate to them.

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There's a yearning, or something, that comes out of me that people relate to.

I prefer writing originals.

If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

My concepts are never bright ideas; they're never notions I think will sell or be trendy or attract new fans. I don't think that way. All I can do is sing from my life.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

I always make music that is true to my spirit.