Natasha Bedingfield Quotes

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

It's been 32 years of learning to communicate. We have had ups and downs.

The thing that I regret is not having better relationships with a lot of people. Being the hard-nosed guy that I was, I think I could've come off a little bit better in my relationships with a lot of people, and I didn't.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

You learn a lot about people when you live together.

When I was young as a teenager, that was the biggest mystery in the world to me: Why don't people connect?

As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.

Communication is important.

I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't get it,' it's worth looking at.

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'

As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.

People who find that they have a lot of drama in their relationships need to allow themselves to get 'bored'. At first, it will feel excruciating, and they may find themselves confronting a very real fear underneath all that drama: being truly close and therefore vulnerable to another human being.

Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships.